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Originally Posted by Vlim
There is a CIA report from the era which notes the large amount of work, very limited tooling and short throughput times at the Brandenburg facility, basically a stripped down shell of a factory, where the initial reworks / overhauls were done.
So I suspect the reason was mostly that: lack of tools, shortage of time and resources.
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Could that first document have be written by the British?
In the paragraph below b. Pistols and Machine-Pistols , I notice it refers to 'Machine Carbines' and lists Schmeisser, as well as American and unknown. The reason I suspect it may have been British is that submachine guns were referred to as Machine Carbines by the British armed forces during WW2. Indeed the British Small arms training pamphlet No. 21 from 1942 and 1944 refers to the ‘Thompson Machine Carbine’, for example.
I have never heard any Americans refer to Submachine guns as Machine Carbines, but I may be wrong?