No quiz/ I wonder why...

[eclancy]

Gentlemen,

..Ordnance did not bring in more private companies like Remington or others, to help in the production of the M1 Garand Rifles. Ordnance during WW2 only had Winchester and SA for production and the Army kept trying to get more M1 Garands into the field. We know during WW2 that Ordnance had 11 companies, one of them being Winchester building the M1 Carbine's. I just wondered why ? What do you think.

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Clancy
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[foghornl]

Kinda wondered about that, myself...

International Harvester was involved in the '50's ('53-'58 or so), along with Harrington & Richardson. IHC was probably not making/selling a lot of Agricultural/Industrial equipment then, so they possibly had a lot of leftover factory capacity.

During WW2, wasn't Ithaca making the 1911 pistol, along with Singer Sewing Machine company, and the typewiter guys Remington/Rand? Or am I completely confuse-ed?

Always seems like in "War Times", not all resources (Companies & people) are being used to their best advantage. [/////mini-rant mode off]

 

[iamkris]

I frankly don't know but could only speculate.

Wasn't Remington pretty involved producing 03A3's? While you could argue that you could just shift production, solid, high quality production lines don't come on line overnight. There would be a gap in 03A3 production then it would take significant resources to bring Remington up...both from Remington as well aws Ordnance. Just a theory...I lead a product management and development team and that is our concerns with bringing up new vendors...it's not free by any means.

 

[NMshooter]

Perhaps it had something to do with the large expense and difficulty of manufacturing the M-1 rifle.

I seem to recall Winchester having a difficult time making rifles that would meet standards, and in significant quantities.

Similar to the saga of the M-14, only TRW could manage to produce quality rifles and in large numbers.

Probably why twice as many of the cheaper and easier to produce M-1 carbines were made, and why some infantrymen were issued them, despite the M-1 rifle being standard issue for infantry.

This is why there were so many firearms made from sheet metal stampings, and why it is incredible that American industry was able to manufacture over 6 million M-1 rifles in addition to vast quantities of other small arms, vehicles, ships, aircraft, some of it going to other nations.

The AKM is one of the most common firearms ever produced, and certainly the most common military rifle because it is so cheap and easy to make.