I hate to revive an old thread, but while the Dickson Special Agent was made by Echasa (in the 1960s), it is a retailer-brand of a very different pistol than the much older Bronco.
The Dickson Special Agent is one of the many US-retailer branded variants of the Echasa FAST, which was also sold under the names EA FAST, Echasa Basque, EA Basque, and only in the US as Madison (Imports), Liberty Arms, Falcon, and Volunteer, as well as Dickson.
This pistol was most commonly sold as the MAB Espanola modelo GZ (aka Echasa MAB GZ or Spanish MAB GZ), which was licensed by (the French pistol maker) MAB to Echasa (Echave y Arizmendi SA) in 1962. Echasa made all these variants in .22LR, .25, .32 and .380, and in blue and nickel or chrome finishes. MAB made the GZ in the early 1960s as an alloy-framed replacement for the all-steel model G, which it made in the late 1950s. MAB discontinued making the GZ after a couple of years and licensed it to Echasa, which made it until closing in 1969. The 1968 Gun Control Act prevented Echasa from continuing to export the pistol (in all its variants) to the US, its major market, putting the company out of business.
So, both the Bronco and Dickson Special Agent were made by Echave y Arizmendi SA/Echasa/EA, but about 30 or 40 years apart, with the Bronco a typical Browning-1903 influenced Ruby-type pistol of its time and the Dickson Special Agent (or its Echasa FAST/MAB GZ parent) derived from the Walther PP.
Bill
