Remington-UMC US Army 1911 1918 Production

[Von der Goltz]

Here for your perusal is WWI Remington UMC .45ACP US Army Model 1911 pistol serial number 3345 which was shipped in October 28 1918 serial number range 511-4657 per report "Serial Numbers of .45 Colt Automatic Pistols Manufactured Under Contract # P4537-3338Sa, Remington Arms-UMC to Major Lee O. Wright, Ord. Dept. USA, July 26, 1923. Anyone know if additional shipping information such as receiving organization/unit etc is available?

 

[FL-NC]

No idea. But I want it.

 

[wiscoaster]

Ditto the above. Please keep that thing 100% safe and secure, whatever you do. It's history. Good history. Thank you.

 

[LUCKYDAWG13]

is that still a shooter do you shoot it

 

[Von der Goltz]

Haven't shot it yet but will post results when I do.

 

[CapnMac]

Arms were distributed, back in the day, on a Regimental basis. Corps or Brigade would receive deliveries in bulk, which would be then distributed to the individual Regiments according to their individual deployments.

This allowed the Regiments to meet the current Table of Organization and Equipment, and then rotate back fully fitted out.

But, it means the records of what s/n went where are down to Regimental Supply officers and the subordinate Battalion and Company Supply officers.

 

[entropy]

I had one very similar, same year of manufacture, IIRC, in my Arms Room; it was our XO's issue weapon, and the most accurate of the 7 1911's (the other six were A1's) in my Arms Room.

Nice find!

 

[DrDeFab]

Eh, it would be OK if it weren't for that giant tacky billboard on the slide.


...do I really need to add a sarcastic wink? OK, here you go.

 

[HPJeep]

What a beauty! Can I be in your will?

 

[Von der Goltz]

Thanks for your informative replies. I sent an enquiry to the National Archives re the report concerning shipments under that contact number to which they replied that the records which may include this report and data are not digitized and are not available online and due to COVID-19 they can't research non-digitized records at this time (maybe later I guess) .

 

[CapnMac]

they can't research non-digitized records at this time

And the National Archives are not the most organized things, too.
It's not uncommon to go through a collection of, say, Navy Department contracts, and find highly unrelated items interleaved within (found crop reports in one; bunch of State Department treaty analyses in another). Just because items are not cataloged does not mean they are not there, only that they are not cataloged.

 

[Patocazador]

I got a mismatched (1911 upper and 1911 A1 lower) US Gov't 1911 at a pawn shop for $95 back in the '60s. But it's worse than being mismatched because it's also nickel-plated.

 

[mec]

[QUOTE=" d (1911 upper and 1911 A1 lower) US Gov't 1911 at a pawn shop for $95 back in the '60s. But it's worse than being mismatched because it's also nickel-plated. [/QUOTE]
That sort of thing happened a lot back then.

 

[CapnMac]

That sort of thing happened a lot back then.

Nickle plating was cheap, and easier than cleaning rust, and it was shiny.
A different sort of age.