What is a "Parabellum Pistol"???

[Vlim]

It is also somewhat flawed

Ron is correct in stating that the Parabellum brand name was derived from a latin phrase.

DWM intended to use the 'Parabellum' brand name for marketing their military products. They also used it as their telegraph address for quite a while.

The Maxim machinegun they built under license from Vickers was marketed as the Parabellum Machine gun. The luger as the Parabellum Pistol.

So initially it was a brand name, not a product name. But it gradually shifted from brand name towards product name.

'Parabellum' was only the telegraph name for the Berlin office of DWM. Karlsruhe used a different name ('Patronenfabrik KarlsruheBaden)

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by Vlim

DWM intended to use the 'Parabellum' brand name for marketing their military products...So initially it was a brand name...

So was the 1891 Austrian proof house referring to DWM products rather than a generic 'military' definition???