Singer Sewing Machine 1911 ACP!!!

[Kamicosmos]

made under contract by one "Western Auto parts"

My grandmother worked for Western Auto here in Kansas City, and my grandfather was quite a sportsman. I still have several boxes of .22 lr ammo on them with Western Auto price tags, and on the back of the box, it says Distrubted by Western Auto.

Next time I'm at my parent's I'll have to snap a few pics to post...

It's kinda sad the the Big WA HQ building in downtown, complete with big flashing light sign, is being converted into way overpriced condos....

 

[JimSmith1960]

Singer 45s

I know that some of you may laugh, but I have a friend who was in the right job when the 45 was replaced by the 9mm. He has 2 boxes of 12 each of Singer 45s. They have neveer been opened, and he is trying to figure out what to do with them. any suggestions from any one. Each box has consecutive serial numbers, but all 24 are not consequeitive.

 

[UberPhLuBB]

^

Some first post. I smell something...

 

[Tim Burke]

I'm smelling something, too.

The glass covering on the dial of my BS meter just cracked... and there's smoke coming from it.
Singers were sought after long before the conversion to 9mm. I have a friend that has one, he's had it over 40 years.

 

[Steelharp]

If one says "SINGER" on it, it isn't. The rollmark would be "S. MFG. CO.", and the serial # would be 800001 - 800500, IIRC...

Also, if they're in "original box, with papers," I think that's a phony giveaway, also...

 

[hso]

Mike,

I wasn't aware that IBM made any complete weapons other than the M1 Carbine. Can you point me to a reference on that?

 

[1 old 0311]

A few years ago I read about a guy that held up a gas station with a Singer. He got a few bucks, got cought, and lost the pistol. Didn't know what he had.

Kevin

 

[steveracer]

Borg Warner magazines and transmission.

I have a Super T-10 in my Chevelle, and just sold the last of my BRW-S1 mags for M-14 to another user. I always liked that.

 

[Zen21Tao]

Here's one for you. If I recall correctly Remington is (or was) owned (at least in part) by DuPont. Why not own a shotgun or rifle made by a pots and pans company?

 

[1911Tuner]

Singer

An original and/or correct Singer is the Holy Grail amongst 1911 collectors.
In my 40-odd years of dancin' with USGI pistols, I've seen only two genuine, documented Singers, and they were in locked display cases with signs announcing threats of mayhem if anybody even attempted to open one.

On the other hand, I've seen a few Singer slides on Colt, Rand, and Ithaca frames being represented as real Singers, but the serial number ranges were dead giveaways...but not very many as compared to other mix'n'match pistols. I've also seen a few fakes that somebody went to the trouble to cobble up. Some were nicely done, but wouldn't fool an expert for two seconds.

 

[Nashmack]

Other manufacturers making weapons....

AMF owned Harley Davidson, and was concurently producing both bikes and 2,000 pound bomb casings on it's York PA production line.

Chrysler built the prototype M1 Abrams. They also built M60 MBTs, M48s, M47s, and Shermans.

 

[bakert]

Of the 500 original Singer 1911s, only about 7000 are known to still exist

Maybe they're breeding??

 

[FrankB]

Daisy 22

Here's one for everyone.
Around 15 - 16 years ago my son was in Boy Scouts and wanted to work on the Marksmanship merit badge. We went to Wal-Mart and purchased a Daisy single shot bolt action 22 LR rifle with scope. The rifle was cleaned and put away for several years. Recently I took it to the range just to shoot it. I was mildly surprised to find that it is now a collectors item. Seems Daisy did not have a license to produce firearms -- just air rifiles.

While we were paying for the rifle, the sales person told us that they had received an emergency fax from headquarters informing all Wal-Mart stores that the Daisy 22 rifles were REAL firearms. Seems some stockers read Daisy on the label and put these 22 rifles with the BB guns.

 

[Sewerman]

The Singer .45 is probably the most counterfieted pistol in American history. The last couple of times ive been to the gun show in Marietta there was some dingbat trying to sell one for 1100 bucks

 

[2TransAms]

I know that some of you may laugh, but I have a friend who was in the right job when the 45 was replaced by the 9mm. He has 2 boxes of 12 each of Singer 45s. They have neveer been opened, and he is trying to figure out what to do with them. any suggestions from any one. Each box has consecutive serial numbers, but all 24 are not consequeitive.

OOOOHH,I'll take two!...the rarest,most sought after 1911 and "your friend" has two dozen? If he really doesn't want them,they'd have been gone a long time ago.

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.

I'm afraid that someday my wife will sell all my guns for what I told her I paid for them.