To my untrained eye, it appears to be stamped with a partial Ordnance department inspectors stamp(2nd to last pic).
It also has the FJA inspectors stamp on it. It has the proof marks on the slide, frame and barrel and they appear to be the same size. I have looked it over very carefully and they have not been removed it was just never stamped with any.
REMINGTON RAND 1911A1 SERIAL NUMBER RANGE SERIAL NUMBERS
The gun does not have any serial numbers on it anywhere. I was thrilled! As you can imagine it cheered me up instantly Just one minor problem. The remain numbers were assigned to H&R for H800,501 to H801,000 which were never produced.My long time friend found this gun in his father's possessions after he passed and gave it to me as a divorce present. I call it a pseudo gap because this is where Singer produced S800,001 to S800,500. There is a pseudo gap in the 1941 serial numbers from 800,001 to 801,000. There was an attempt in the 1911A1 production to address this problem. In a way, you could say the army was too lazy to keep track of the manufacturer of an item. Also, very early armory production didn't even have serial numbers. For example, Rock Island Armory and Springfield Armory produced 1903 with the same serial numbers.
Earlier, the army didn't really care about duplicate serial numbers. If you are producing items and your company ran serial numbers from 1 to whatever then you don't create 'gaps' if you call off all production early.īut when you have multiple companies producing in one serial number range and stop production early, you cause gaps (missing serial numbers) and overruns (duplicate serial number because of 2 or more manufactures are using the same number) in the serial number range.Īll this is caused by the Army at one point not want duplicate serial numbers. You have to know how the serial number system was set up for a given company. Once the end was in sight, there was no need to keep up with the mass production. I am sure it was that way with all military hardware and supplies, including M2's, BAR's, planes, jeeps, tanks, all of it. I don't see why it wouldn't happen with the 1911's as well. If you look at the contracts and the production of the M1 Carbine, the same thing happened. Or, it there was a slowdown in deliveries after the suspension order was given indicating that there was an effort to use up as many of the parts on hand as possible. So, I'm wondering if it was an abrupt halt where the suspension order was given and there was an abrupt halt in the last 100,000 delivered. So it would appear that construction was suspended near V-E Day. Based on the 1944 production, that would only be a little over 4 months. That means they were producing on average 35,810 pistols per month. From what I can tell, Remington Rand produced 429,720 pistols in 1944 (the most for any year of the war). Once construction was suspended, I'm trying to figure out. So is the a record of the date when the Military told these 3 contractors to suspend production?
V-E Day happened on Tuesday, and V-J Day happened on Sunday, September 2, 1945. It is well know that the military was ramped up to continuing pistols at the time production was suspended.Ĭolt 11,232 - Sn.
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