1915 Erfurts

LP08 · 08-30-2002, 11:45 PM

Note that if you insert a contracting/start up delay of 18 months for the secondary contractor in the production pattern, you can explain some of the production differences. P08 is adopted and the production at DWM starts rolling out quickly (DWM is up and running with lugers because lugers are their pistol and are already in production). Erfurt receives a contract (to ensure a second source at a govt arsenal) in 1909 and in late 1910/early 1911 start cranking out some lugers, albeit more slowly, to peak in 1913 and in 1912/1913 the LP08 design is contracted to Erfurt (along with a bunch of carbines to keep em busy) because all the needed P08s have been made and DWM can produce some small maintenance quantity. Erfurt cranks out LP08s in 1914, eighteen months later, along with the last of the P08s. The war happens, and new contracts are issued such that Erfurt cranks out more P08s starting 18 months later in 1915.

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08-30-2002, 11:45 PM	#3
LP08 User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 71 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Note that if you insert a contracting/start up delay of 18 months for the secondary contractor in the production pattern, you can explain some of the production differences. P08 is adopted and the production at DWM starts rolling out quickly (DWM is up and running with lugers because lugers are their pistol and are already in production). Erfurt receives a contract (to ensure a second source at a govt arsenal) in 1909 and in late 1910/early 1911 start cranking out some lugers, albeit more slowly, to peak in 1913 and in 1912/1913 the LP08 design is contracted to Erfurt (along with a bunch of carbines to keep em busy) because all the needed P08s have been made and DWM can produce some small maintenance quantity. Erfurt cranks out LP08s in 1914, eighteen months later, along with the last of the P08s. The war happens, and new contracts are issued such that Erfurt cranks out more P08s starting 18 months later in 1915.