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1 THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND GUNMAKERS : PAGE 1 PAGE 2 : THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND GUNMAKERSm Found on rifle and other small arms components made in Germany in 1940 by Limbacher Maschinenfabrik Bach & Winter of and a number. Found on components of a range of British military stores (including firearms) made during the Second World War, this indicates a company operating in the Midlands (of Britain). The numbers identified the individual companies. Among the many examples associated with small- arms are M 1 , Accles & Pollock; M 8 , Anstey M 13 , the Austin Motor Co.

2 Ltd; M 47 , BSA Guns Ltd (plus suffixes A for Small Heath, B for Redditch and C for Shirley); M 78 , Elkington M 91 , Godins Ltd; M 94 , Greener Ltd; M 109 , Harrison Bros. Ltd; M 111 , Frank Hawker Ltd; M 117 , the Hercules Cycle & Motor Co. Ltd; M 136 , Willen, Jones & Sons Ltd; M 158 , Joseph Lucas Ltd; M 170 , the Midland Gun Co.; M 183 , Parker-Hale Ltd; M 224 , Skimmin M 233 , Standard Sporting Guns; M 260 , Walls Ltd; M 264 , Webley & Scott Ltd, Birmingham; M 265 , Webley & Scott Ltd, Stourbridge; M 268 , Westley Richards & Co.

3 Ltd; M 292 , the Morris Motor Co.; M 601 , Berridge M 602 , Alfred Bray M 615 , BSA Guns Ltd, Leicester; M 616 , BSA Guns Ltd, Mansfield; and M 634 , Mettoy Ltd. See also British military manufacturers marks .M and 2 beneath a crown. Found on Portuguese weapons: the mark of King Manuel II (1908 10). See also Cyphers, imperial and royal .M1 Carbine Developed in 1941 in answer to a requirement formulated by the Army as early as 1937, the prototype of this.

4 30 calibre light automatic rifle reached Aberdeen Proving Ground on 9th August 1941 and immediately showed more promise than either the Springfield Light Rifle or the Hyde/Bendix pattern, which had survived previous trials. On 30th September 1941, the perfected Winchester Carbine was recommended for immediate adoption, and the Carbine, Caliber .30, M1 was standardised on 22nd October 1941. A wide range of manufacturers was subsequently entrusted with production, The M2 Carbine was a selective fire version of the semi automatic M1, adopted on 23rd October 1944.

5 The guns were outstandingly successful, as more than six million M1, M2 and M3 Carbines were made for the armed forces prior to 1946. The M1 Carbine is customarily credited to David M. Williams, but was really an amalgamation of a rotating bolt action developed by Jonathan Browning rifle and the Williams short stroke piston gas on Australian Lee Enfield rifles and other small arms made by the Lithgow Small arms Factory in New South superimposition-type monogram with both letters equally prominent.

6 Correctly interpreted as AM ; used by August Menz of DIRECTORY: M MY kAUpdated to 31st January 2015 THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND GUNMAKERS : PAGE 3MA superimposition monogram, usually encircled or enwreathed. This has the M splayed to accommodate A and (sometimes) an accompanying ring target. Correctly read as AM ( ); associated with August Menz of superimposition-type monogram, usually encircled. Found with A formed by extending the medial strokes of M . Effectively formed of two opposed right-angle triangles, overlapping at the foot, this actually reads MANN with one N reversed; it will be found on the grips of pocket pistols made in Germany by Fritz Mann of Found on German small- arms ammunition and components made during the Second World War by Lange Metallwerke AG of Military & Civil Industries Company; Port Said (?)

7 This firearms-making manufactory, operated by the Egyptian government, was built with Soviet aid in the early 1960s to make a copy of the Kalashnikov AKM known as the Misr. See also Ljungmann .MAB Manufacture d arms de Ch , This Scottish name-label son of may be encountered in several forms, , MacLean , McLean or even simply M Lean . Owing to potential confusion, the permutations are treated here in a single alphabetical Isaac E. McAboy of Huntingdon, West Virginia, , designed an automatic rapid-fire gun protected by Patent 566214 of 18th August James R.

8 McAlister of Hailesboro, New York, perhaps related to McAllister , was granted a patent protecting a firearm : no. 804255 of 14th November 1905. The claims concerned an auxiliary barrel clamped to the top of a sporting gun (the drawings show a pump-action shotgun), loaded by swinging the bolt mechanism laterally. McAllister A arms inspector: see McCallister .McAllister Albert H. McAllister of Cotton Plant and New Albany, Mississippi, , was the patentee of machine-guns ( 201810 of 26th March 1878 and 674811 of 21st May 1901)

9 , rights in the latter being assigned to the McAllister Machine Gun Gun- and metalsmith Charles McAllister was recorded at 343 King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, , in 1853 McAllister of Williamsport, Pickaway County, Ohio, , made cap-lock sporting guns in 1858 The McAllister Machine Gun Company of Memphis, Tennessee, , was assignee of rights to the machine-gun patented in 1901 by Albert McAllister. Production seems to have been James McAlpine of New Haven, Connecticut, , patented a breech-loading firearm ( no.)

10 204675 of 11th June 1878).McArdle or McCardle . Gunsmith J. McArdle was listed in commercial directories in Boston, Massachusetts, , shortly before the Civil War began in Marks applied by the gunsmithing business of McAusland Brothers of Deadwood, Dakota Territory [South Dakota], and Miles City, Montana, PAGE 4 : THE DICTIONARY OF GUNS AND , a partnership of Alexander, John and William McAusland, will be found on sporting guns and ammunition. Most of the breech-loaders were purchased from major manufacturers such as Colt s Patent Fire arms Mfg Co.