The book arrived today. It's not in as good a condition as the DWM book, but workable nonetheless.
A first impression is that the production of the Luger at Mauser is somewhat hidden in the publication.
Interesting parts about the 1930 - 1934 timeframe. It appears that in those days the Mauser plants were operating on a bare minimum. Also interesting is that Mauser set up a Berlin plant at the DWM site in Berlin-Wittenau in 1934. It seems that moving P08 production from DWM Berlin to Mauser at Oberndorf and then Mauser entering the same building where DWM produced the P08 before is not very logical.
The low number of staff and the fact that Mauser was working on the edge of bankruptcy between 1930 - 1934 sheds some interesting light on the Luger production of the time.
Some photo's from the book:
(and the only P08 picture in it)
This one was also used in Goertz's 'Die Pistole 08'.
Testfiring a bucketload of C96 pistols. Note the stock.
P08 testfiring would have been done in the same manner, with a stock attached.
