Singer Sewing Machine 1911 ACP!!!

The Rubbermaid bazooka fires a freshness sealed ziplock missile with a freezer burn warhead.

The Hydramatic division of General Motors made M-16's during the Vietnam era. Both transmissions and rifles that were automatic.

My local gun store used to (maybe still does) have one for display, I think the price tag on it was $4000.

I've got what is essentially a model 60 made under contract by one "Western Auto parts" and called the revelation..

$4000.00 is cheap for a Singer .45. It would be a good investment.

Heck, the GM steering gear plant down the road from my house made M1 (and I think M2) carbines. Who better to get making rifles quick, then a HUGE plant already set up for metal work?

Had a Rockola carbine once.
They were also made by:
IBM, Winchester, Underwood, Inland, Saginaw, National Postal Meter, Quality Hardware Machine Corp, Standard Product Corp -


I have a Westinghouse Nagant and have used gatlings made by Philco and M2's made by Frigidaire

Sam

My 03A3 was made by Smith Corona- a maker of typewriters.

The trouble with a Rockola is you had to put nickles in the slot for it to work. That and it played music at the most inopportune times!

I have a Remington Rand 1911A1. They were the most common ones contracted in WWll even more than Colt. They still get a decent price at gunshows though.

Gun related. Moving to the correct forum.

I had one of those Hydramatic M-16A1's in Basic Training many years ago. I remember you had to run 500 rounds through it and get it warmed up really good before you could check the fluid level.

My uncle has a General Motor M1 Carbine.

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A $4000 Singer is probably a fake. The last verified one I saw for sale was about six times that price.

Either Remington Rand or Ithaca, I misremember which, got the 1911A1 tooling from Singer when they shifted Singer from pistols to artillery fire directors (not bomb sights as commonly reported.)

My Garand was made by International Harvester

by the wayside, anyone want to refresh me on what ACP stands for?

what ACP stands for?

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Automatic Colt Pistol.

TC
TFL Survivor

Heck, the GM steering gear plant down the road from my house made M1 (and I think M2) carbines.

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They also made .50 barrels. We found a couple when moving a press a few years ago

Union Switch & Signal Co. here in the Pittsburgh area made a bunch of .45's. I'd like to get one just because of the local connection. If any of you has one for sale...

RE: Singer .45's
These 500 pistols are the subject of a vast number of lies. I've lost track of the number of times I've heard guys claim that there was a Singer in their National Guard/Reserve armory or that they were issued one in Korea/Vietnam/Grenada/Desert Storm. Anyting is possible, of course, but I doubt if 5,000,000 pistols would be enough to cover all the claims.

Larry: That's like the Walker Colt. Of the 1,100 manufactured only two or three thousand still exist.

Elmer Keith told of one he owned, designated by serial no. For example "A Co 120." It had been improved by somebody who sawed off the bbl and it was rough in places. In short, it was a shooter. Elmer sold it and got a better one. Some time later, he saw the same gun, perfect blue with the correct bbl, and priced accordingly.

Not exactly gun related, but the Saturn V rocket was built by Chrysler.

Gun related, there are IIRC quite a few M1s and 1911s out there produced by International Business Machines.

IBM. When you *really* mean business.

I owned one back in around 1982 or 1983. Paid $2,500 for it back then and at the time there was no fake talk on those but with the $25K price tag on them now I can see fakes coming out.
Bought that from a good friend that collected them also but at the time I was collecting them and it was a good time for it.
Still wish I had them as the us&s guns were more common as in that was right at the beginning of the imports with them comming back in from places like China. Lots of rarities at the time in those crates. then anything like the rand, us&s and Ithica's were running like low $200 and the colts and things like the brit and russian ones were closer to $300 and a little over. those were the one's that were coming back into the country by the importers. Lived in Sac. and the Sac. armory at the time was a large importer of them and has thousands of them to pick from.
The non imports were like mid $300's to $400's and a little up depending on condition. Even back then bought several 1911's in the $600 to $800 range for the usmc and usn type.

A $4000 Singer is probably a fake. The last verified one I saw for sale was about six times that price.

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It could be. Or my memory is just shot. I haven't been in there in a while.

To shoot or collect?

If you want to learn how to shoot one, I would suggest a current manufacturer. I have a Springfield that has never jammed & is reletively inexpensive. About $750 I think. Kimber & even S&W make good guns.
Why not be a shooter?

I remember back in '82 my uncle in Nashville took me down into his basement and opened one of his large gun safes. As we were perusing through it he pulled out both a Remington-Rand and a Singer 1911 in .45. I knew nothing about 1911's back then (Don't know much more about them today.) but I was always impressed with that particular gun, if for nothing else other than it was made by a sewing machine company. I still occasionally thought about that gun. Alas, when he died a few years back my aunt sold his entire collection to a broker I believe. I do not think she ever knew the true value of what he had.