Strange Luger to me please educate me.

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Originally Posted by mrerick

The tooling and gauges (along with DWM parts) were shipped from Berlin to Oberndorf in 1930. There is actually an inventory done documented by August Weiss.

Sturgess & Gortz report that "In May 1930, all special machines, jigs, gauges, tables of dimensions, drawings and operations plans for the Parabellum pistol were transported by rail from Berlin to Oberndorf". They go on to say, after that letter you refer to, that "Mass production of the P08 for the Reichswehr (re-named Wehrmacht on 16 March 1935) with their own manufactured components did not commence at Mauser until 1934".

There were several reasons quoted for the delay, "lack of competance in all Parabellum matters, unfriendly acts bordering on sabotage, vital equipment damaged in transit because the Berlin-Wittinau dispatchers had failed to secure the machines properly on rail cars, or foremen and master-workmen in Berlin had 'secured' essential drawings and operating plans 'lest such papers might fall into enemies hands'".

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

I just explained what I believe it "is"

I believe that explains what it "isn't".