NIl Lugers

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Originally Posted by A.Mifsin

John Walter, in The Luger Story Book, The standard History of the World’s Most famous Handgun, in page 167, Mentions the NIL Lugers.

I tried to trace back how these Lugers were classified as Nil lugers, but I am afraid, I can’t find why they are called so.
Any idea why these Lugers were designated so?

Thank You for any Info.

Alf.

On page 125 Walters describes the terms. NIL later changed to KNIL.

Landmacht is the word for Army. The K (Royal) was added later.

Thus the NIL Lugers were those delivered by DWM with certain changes as described by Walter. The procurement process dates back to the 1905 tests I believe. The process was very prolonged for a variety of reasons.

Hope this helps.

John