Hi Gerben,
Yes - the design was stolen from Mauser (I think it took years for that to be worked out with the US finally making payment to Mauser)....
But the manufacturing engineering, and construction process must have been original at Springfield. I doubt that Mauser provided any guidance on how to actually construct things - as described in these articles.
Do we have records of Mauser helping the Swedish and Turkish setup their in country manufacturing processes? I wonder if those could have been copied...
Marc
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