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The bottom of the trigger housing has the initials and inventory number of the Austrian Gendarmerie in the lands of Salzburg. Close examination of the top of the receiver below the serial number reveals it has been machined and refinished, partly removing part of the first digit of the serial number. Close examination of the bottom of the trigger guard reveals it has also been lightly machined, with the center showing the remnants of several letters. These alterations are consistent with someone having removed the markings of the Wuerttemberg Landespolizei of Germany. The letter remnants are consistent with the markings WB-LP-XXXX, where the X's would be numbers. The full serial number on the stock and handguard was not an Austrian M.O., but it was a Wuerttemberg-Baden M.O. on some of their earlier carbines (1945-1946). A number of carbines have been found to have the Wuerttemberg-Baden markings removed from the receiver when the carbine was later marked and used by the police in Bavaria. The removal of the markings on the bottom of the trigger guard has not been observed before this carbine. More may have had this alteration and just haven't been discovered because of a professional job of removing the markings. Sometimes the Austrians did not place the last four digits of the receiver serial number in the usual places they placed them, if the carbine had previously been used by a German agency who had placed any part of the receiver serial number on the various parts an in the manner used by the German agency. This appears to be the case with this carbine, as the receiver serial number digits and placement are consistent with what was done by the Wuerttemberg-Baden Landespolizei.
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Barrel | IBM (no mfg date) | |
Front Sight | type I | N (common to several manufacturers) |
Barrel Band | type II | KI (Keeler Brass Co. of Grand Rapids, MI for Inland) |
Gas Piston Nut | ||
Barrel Skirt | ||
Slide | SG (Saginaw Gear) | |
Operating slide stop |
INTRAC Knox, TN bottom of barrel behind front sight. Slide does not have any of the digits of the receiver stamped into it. This is consistent with the M.O. of Wuerttemberg-Baden.
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Stock | type II highwood | OI (Overton for Inland) |
Handguard | type I | RS (G is not visible, RSG mfg by Rock-Ola) |
Buttplate |
Stock has entire serial number stamped in slingwell, handguard has the entire serial number written into the bottom side of the wood with a pencil, with the first digit misread on both (see receiver). Handguard has the letters RS visible, this was most likely RSG which was manufactured by Rock-Ola.
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Receiver | I.B.M. Corp. | |
Rear Sight | type III | H (inside a shield, marking/sight used by various mfg's) |
Operating Spring Tunnel Housing | part of receiver | |
Recoil Plate | type III | DI (Dayton Mold Co. of Dayton, OH for Inland) |
Top of receiver below the serial number has been machined, partially obliterating the first digit of the serial number. The markings in this area that were removed were from the Wuerttemberg Landespolizei.
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Bolt | type II | U (Underwood) |
Ejector | ||
Extractor | ||
Extractor Plunger | ||
Firing Pin |
Last four digits of receiver serial number electropenciled into top of bolt.
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Trigger Housing | type I or II | Rock-Ola |
Trigger | ||
Sear | ||
Hammer | type II | KR (Kal Machine Works of Chicago for Rock-Ola) |
Trigger Spring | ||
Trigger Housing Pin | ||
Safety | type IV | |
Magazine Catch | type III | underlined M |
Magazine Catch Plunger |
Outside bottom of trigger housing has LGKSb (LandesGendarmerieKommando Salzburg - Austrian rural police in state/province of Salzburg) stamped along with the numbers 0711 stamped under the letters. The 0711 is the inventory number used by the Austrians. Bottom of trigger guard has remnants of the letters for the Wuerttemberg Landespolizei, which were WB-LP-XXXX, with the X representing a number. This area has been polished down but the center was missed, leaving the partial letters. The trigger housing does not have the customary last four digits of the receiver imprinted on the rear at the top. It is not uncommon to find the Austrians left the German serial number markings, or lack thereof, without applying their own. Wuerttemberg-Baden did not place these digits on the trigger housing of the carbines they used.
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