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they were short on wood because of rifle stocks
at least that is what I have always heard Simson was using aluminum several years before other folks (DWM) and there is a date when everyone was supposed to go from wood to aluminum... I'd have to look it up ![]() |
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Hi Rich, Dr Sturgess in "Pistole Parabellum", which I'm too lazy to dig out so I have to quote from memory, says that the switch from aluminum to plastic in 1941, was for the reason you state. The good Doctor has calculated that if you add up the weight of 250,000 aluminum mag bases (Mauser was making about 125,000 Lugers per year), it comes to two tons, enough to make two medium bombers! Regards, Norm
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