Luger pr0duction

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally posted by sej-gun
About Erfurt, is it possibly that the machinery stood at Erfurt factory
from 1918 to 1925, whit out no production??

There is evidence that P-08 came out of the Erfurt armory between 1918 and 1925. 1918 Erfurt Lugers in the u suffix range have appeared. There are a number of Erfurts known with chamber date stamped 1918/20, appearing to follow Note 4 of the 1910 Marking Instructions. Charlie Sorrentino, in Auto Mag, has suggested that guns like this be considered "Weimar Transitional" pistols.

There are also the disputed 1914 q suffix Erfurts, which some have suggested are late-war or post-war production (a supposition to which I do not subscribe).

The unaswerable question here is, who produced these pistols, and under whose auspices?

--Dwight