I hope that I'm not mistaken, [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]
But as I remember;
Mr. Borschardt was once a Browning Employee.
Before taking his Ideas to Europe. [img]confused.gif[/img]
How much influence his connections with J. Browning had on his development of the fore runner of the Luger will probably never be known with certainty. <img src="graemlins/a_smil17.gif" border="0" alt="[blabla]" />
Someone please correct me if I'm in error.
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My Humblest Apology, I STAND SELF CORRECTED as follows (copied from the Luger History in the Forum Archives)
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The Luger's direct ancestor, the Borchardt C/93 self-loading pistol was, one of the very earliest viable semiautomatic pistols available in any quantity. It was designed by Hugo Borchardt while in the employ of Ludwig Loewe & Co, Karlsruhe, Germany. Borchardt was born on the 6th of June, 1844 in Magdeburg, Germany and he died from a lung infection on the 8th of May 1925 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Borchardt left Germany for the U.S.A. when he was sixteen years old. His first job was as a production supervisor with the Pioneer Breechloading Arms Company in Trennton, Massachusetts. Later, he was a foreman at the Singer sewing machine factory and also worked for Colt and Winchester. In 1876, he was employed by Sharps in Bridgeport, Connecticut and then left America for Budapest in Hungary, where he worked for an arms manufacturer.
Borchardt developed the C 93 pistol for Ludwig Loewe Cie. in Karlsruhe in 1893. It was based on Hyram Maxim�´s 1884 machine gun patent and on Winchester�´s toggle action on their lever-action carbine.
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