View Single Post
Unread 05-30-2011, 01:18 PM   #5
Vlim
Moderator
Lifetime
LugerForum Patron
 
Vlim's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Europe
Posts: 5,053
Thanks: 1,036
Thanked 3,991 Times in 1,205 Posts
Default

It is also somewhat flawed

Ron is correct in stating that the Parabellum brand name was derived from a latin phrase.

DWM intended to use the 'Parabellum' brand name for marketing their military products. They also used it as their telegraph address for quite a while.

The Maxim machinegun they built under license from Vickers was marketed as the Parabellum Machine gun. The luger as the Parabellum Pistol.

So initially it was a brand name, not a product name. But it gradually shifted from brand name towards product name.

'Parabellum' was only the telegraph name for the Berlin office of DWM. Karlsruhe used a different name ('Patronenfabrik KarlsruheBaden)
Attached Images
File Type: jpg letterhead_1903.jpg (15.6 KB, 263 views)
File Type: jpg 7512.22-01_2009-0733-302_III_064_0073.jpg (149.9 KB, 268 views)
Vlim is offline   Reply With Quote