Re: [MV] What did your company do in the war daddy?

From: Bobby Joe Pendleton II (bobbyjoe@chartertn.net)
Date: Sun May 06 2001 - 15:07:19 PDT


They made 500 .45 ACP 1911A1 pistols, VERY RARE!!!

Bobby Joe Pendleton II
MVPA#17657
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas M McHugh" <tmmchugh@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, 06 May, 2001 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] What did your company do in the war daddy?

> Singer also made M-1 Carbines. Not too many. They are a prized
> possession now.
>
> Tom McHugh, NJ
> 52 M38A1
> MVPA - MTA
>
>
>
> On Sun, 6 May 2001 07:19:02 -0700 "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@gte.net>
> writes:
> > International Harvester, IBM, Smith Corona, and Remington Rand among
> > others
> > made M1 carbines and/or M1 Garands for the war.
> >
> > Joe Garrett
> > cell 425-344-1402
> > Please note my new email address is
> > j.garrett@gte.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> > Behalf Of John K. Seidts
> > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 6:05 AM
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [MV] What did your company do in the war daddy?
> >
> >
> >
> > Interesting thread. Just the other day, a Vietnam Veteran Medic
> > friend of
> > mine told me that he now works for American Seating Company- 114
> > years old.
> > I told him the name sounded familiar. When I passed by my NOS 1944
> > packboard and looked at it- made by American Seating Company. I
> > can't wait
> > to tell him.
> >
> > At shows that I attend, people are sometimes speechless when I tell
> > them
> > about their companies and what they did during WWII. I am always
> > assembling
> > information about who did what during WWII. 10 blocks from my
> > house, they
> > built FM-2 Wildcats. 14 in the other direction, a company from
> > Downtown
> > Baltimore made buttons during the Civil War (Union and Confederate).
> > Of
> > course, I live less than four miles from the original entrance gate
> > to Fort
> > Holabird- the original grade test mounds are still there. I fly out
> > of
> > Martin State Airport, where more than half of the Martin B26
> > Marauder's were
> > built during WWII.
> >
> > My wife sometimes thinks I am not conscious of the present when we
> > are
> > driving down the roads. Perhaps I live in the past and fantasize
> > about the
> > present....
> >
> >
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