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Background
This carbine appears in the Centerfire Systems, Versailles, KY, catalog dated 06/08/1995. The description of the stock,
barrel, barrel band, Bavaria Rural Police, and markings on the trigger housing are consistent with the appearance of this
carbine.
Barrel Group
| Barrel |
type II |
Marlin, undated (manufactured by Marlin Firearms Co. for NPM) |
| Front Sight |
type |
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| Barrel Band |
type I |
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| Barrel Skirt |
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| Slide |
type |
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National Postal Meter did not manufacture any of their own barrels. All barrels for NPM were manufactured by others. In
this case, the barrel was manufactured by Marlin Firearms Company. Last 4 digits of receiver serial number on slide arm.
INTRAC KNOX TN importer marking on bottom of barrel behind front sight.
Stock Group
| Stock |
type III |
obscured |
| Handguard |
type II |
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| Buttplate |
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Stock slingwell has both the entire serial number and the last 4 digits of the receiver serial number, obscuring the
stock manufacturer marking. Bottom of handguard has both number sequences also.
Receiver Group
| Receiver |
type II |
National Postal Meter, U (manufactured by Union Switch & Signal for NPM) |
| Rear Sight |
type I |
unmarked |
| Operating Spring Tunnel Housing |
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attached |
| Recoil Plate |
type |
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Receiver manufactured by Union Switch & Signal under contract to National Postal Meter. Union Switch & Signal manufactured
a total of 50,052 receivers for NPM, 48,572 delivered to NPM between October 1943 and March 1944.
Bavaria Rural Police on top of receiver to left of bolt.
Bolt Group
| Bolt |
type II |
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| Ejector |
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| Extractor |
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| Extractor Plunger |
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| Firing Pin |
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Last four digits of receiver serial number electropenciled into the top of the bolt, on top of last 4 digits
of receiver serial number stamped into the bolt.
Trigger Group
| Trigger Housing |
type III |
Q-NL (National Lock Co. of Rockford, IL for Quality Hardware) |
| Trigger |
type |
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| Sear |
type |
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| Hammer |
type |
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| Hammer Spring |
type |
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| Trigger Housing Pin |
type |
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| Safety |
type IV |
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| Magazine Catch |
type III |
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Bottom of trigger housing has markings LGKSb (Gendarmerie Salzburg) with the inventory number 0001. Rear of
trigger housing on T has numbers 2705 stamped into it. This indicates that this trigger housing was on
another carbine before this carbine, the last 4 digits of the serial number of the other carbine being 2705.
Caution should be exercised in assuming at what point this carbine and this trigger housing were joined together. At the
point in time INTRAC imported this carbine, this trigger housing appears to have been on it. It may, or may not, have been on
it when the Austrians received it.
Information and photographs courtesy of Roland Dodge.
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