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    Change in name of LongBranch to Canadian Arsenals

    The "official" date of change was August 29, 1947.
    The CA (A within the C) logo became official on that day by an act of Parliament.
    How long it took to change markings on manufactured items and dies is anyone's guess.

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    All operations were taken over by the 'Small Arms Division of Canadianicon Arsenals Ltd.' on December 31st 1945.

    March of 1946, is when all the assets and liabilities of the Company were turned over to the Department of Reconstruction and Supply, and the Company made application to surrender it's Charter.

    Edit- On April 11th 1946, the final meeting of the Board of Directors was held at Long Branch. At this meeting, final approval was given to the final balance sheet of the company, which carried the statement; that as of March 31st 1946, all the assets and liabilities of the company were transferred to the Department of Reconstruction and Supply.

    -Excerpt taken from Internal memo to Board members dated 12 Nov. 1946,
    relating a request from a Mr. J deN. Kennedy who was tasked with writing a combined wartime history of the Crown Companies responsible to the Dept. of Munitions and Supply, requesting the period of history- OCT 1943- End 1945.
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    History of Long Branch Arsenal

    Sorry to hijack your thread Warren, but I got a ton of LB info y'all might be interested in…. Technically LB was a Crown corp in 1940, with the Government being pretty much the only stockholder. So it could have fallen under a 'Canadianicon Arsenals' umbrella due to that, or, even a wartimes measures act....?!

    History of Long Branch Arsenal (click here)
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    Great info! |Is there any info in your literature for the experimental work that SAL did on light rifles, snipers and so forth? Ron

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    Hey RG7-

    That Dominion post was not the result of Chen's article.... That intro was from the original letter to the Historical Society from the author, my Grandfather, who was a Dominion employee and then was with CA till closing. If you could put that Chen link back up as a reference, because I'm not sure if it was edited by Chen. I can tell you that most of the content of the 43-45 history is not in this article...
    Yes- there is info on production of light guns and snipers. This history contains all production numbers and orders for this time period. It's a little dry but I know the numbers are correct. Talks alot about Sniper production in that their production was dependent solely on the delivery of scopes. Then goes into the factory workers, facilities, process, etc...
    I'm trying to electronify all my Grandfathers papers, so I'll be happy to pass it on if you guys are interested. Most of his archive covers the 60's when LB was trying to survive..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bullseye4mkI* View Post
    I'm trying to electronify all my Grandfathers papers, so I'll be happy to pass it on if you guys are interested. Most of his archive covers the 60's when LB was trying to survive..
    We'd be happy to help you do this and also publish the resulting electronic library as an MKLicon entry for the benefit of the entire collector community.

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    The sniper production engineering side would be useful especially in view of the fact that one of the Holland and Holland production overseers went to add the H&H technical oversight in order to production line process the LB sniper production. Alas, if you can't keep up with sight production, production lining the rifle conversion is pretty well academic

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    Hey Guys,

    -My pleasure Badger, feel free to move where ever!

    -Peter, I will keep a look out for any mention of those H&H guys...

    I don't think I have alot of specifics for this period other than this '46 doc. Specific(official) info/documentation on the development and disposition of 'special weapons and prototypes', especially, in the war period would be difficult if not impossible to procure...

    I’ll eventually pass on everything of interest I have, I literally just started cataloging it. I started here only because there was a bunch of humorous internal memos attached, and correspondence with J.Kennedy regarding this missing document, and how he kept on getting delivered the first part only. Also because of the request in 1991, from the Historical Society, for this portion of the history as they were unable to locate it also…

    The first documents I actually looked at was some funny stuff about who the hell authorized the shipping of 2 'C2' rifles(def experimental and 'maybe' not federally approved) to Ghana in 1960….I’ll try to include somewhere!

    History of Small Arms Limited (October 1943 - March 1946)
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    You've got my attention. No5 rifle? 63/4 lbs tropical prototype? Can't wait. Ron

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    Lol sorry Ron, as mentioned and for those wondering it doesn't have specific production numbers on prototypes, more of a few paragraphs as to their approach/need in new development.

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