but with delivery of the 500 right at Pearl Harbor time, the government's contract offering of 15,000 more pistols was turned down, Singer's board of directors feeling that their company's skills, knowledge, and factory were better put to use manufacturing ship and artillery fire control directors. Singer was able to produce the 500 test pistols required. One such contract went to the Singer Sewing Machine Company in April of 1940. They were able to issue "educational contracts" to manufacturers, contracts that paid for the costs of setting up to make small arms, and to produce a small run as proof of performance. "Despite this situation, the Army was able to make some progress in the late 1930s and early 1940s before Pearl Harbor. To help its financial burden the Army had to get creative as is best described in Patrick Sweeney's book 1911: The First 100 Years. The new round would have taken massive funds to be developed and produced as well as required the conversions of vast amounts of the Army's machine guns. The M1 Garand, while still adopted, had to compromise and be made in the existing. Patton is said to have used his own funds to pay for parts to keep his successful tank brigade up and running. It was the aforementioned shortage of military funding that led to the most desirable of all 1911A1s: the Singer. We will also be auctioning M1911 pistols from every manufacturer during the first World War, but that's an article for another week. military arms, Class III firearms, and an extraordinary collection of German WWII military items known simply as The Von Norden Collection. 1911s will be generously represented as will many of the U.S. 1911 production models during World War II were manufactured by five different companies - ALL of which will be appearing in Rock Island Auction Company's May 2014 Premiere Firearms Auction. With multiple manufacturers required to build the United States' arsenals to appropriate levels for war, it would give collectors of the legendary pistol quite a bit to focus on in future decades. Since soldiers were not needed in their WWI quantities, the government limited the Army 144,000 officers and men! If that's the limit they placed on personnel, you can imagine the financial restrictions placed on munitions, arms, parts, repairs, and other military essentials. This lack of produced firearms was exacerbated by the slashed military funding after WWI. By cancelling those productions, the United States found itself short of sidearms, much like it did at the beginning of World War I.
Part of this precipitated thanks to the War Department not allowing many contractors to finish their World War I contracts. The 1911A1 was not immune to this boost in production from multiple sources. If a country is saving its pan drippings to beat you, that's a bad sign.
#REMINGTON RAND 1911A1 US ARMY FJA STAMPED FULL#
Chrysler was making tanks, anti-aircraft guns, the Martin B-26 bomber and B-29 Superfortress, fuses, shells and more! Countless companies dropped what they were doing before the war, refocused, and turned the full industrial might of a nation on toward the war effort. Ford Motor Company has been producing airplane engines for the British before America entered the war, but soon switched over to full-time military production making B-24 Liberators, superchargers, generators, military gliders, tanks, armored cars, jeeps, grenades, bombs, landing crafts and more. The Kaiser Corporation, which had seen great growth in the 1930s building dams under federal contracts, began building ships, planes, and other vehicles. Corporations across America were tooling up to help meet war needs and to beat back the Axis powers. Public were not the only ones to contribute to the war effort. As we all know, when American decided to enter World War II after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor it was "all hands on deck." Everyone in the nation was contributing through whatever means necessary: rationing of goods, rubber drives, saving fats, Victory gardens, nylon drives, tin can collection, carpooling, blackouts, women joining the workforce en masse, and hundreds of thousands of War Bonds were sold.
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