L9A1 slide on an Inglis HP?

I was looking at the recent newspaper photo of a certain Browning High-Power that "turned up in somebody's desk"...some of you will know who/what I'm referring to. (Just citing source/context.)

Anyway, I noticed it was an L9A1-type slide on an older Inglis frame. At first I thought it was another "put together from pieces" project, but then I recall being told elsewhere that Australia did this with their Inglis pistols in later years as the original slides wore out.

Does anybody here recall seeing hybrids like that--L9A1 slides on Inglis frames--in British service?

We had a few older frames that still had the slot for the butt filled in with weld sporting the newer slide...still in service. Serial numbers had been changed to the new type from the old CHxxx numbers.

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Originally Posted by enbloc8

I was looking at the recent newspaper photo of a certain Browning High-Power that "turned up in somebody's desk"...some of you will know who/what I'm referring to. (Just citing source/context.)

Anyway, I noticed it was an L9A1-type slide on an older Inglis frame. At first I thought it was another "put together from pieces" project, but then I recall being told elsewhere that Australia did this with their Inglis pistols in later years as the original slides wore out.

Does anybody here recall seeing hybrids like that--L9A1 slides on Inglis frames--in British service?

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It's comparatively easy to fit the slide. but the barrel is more of a challenge.

"...that "turned up in somebody's desk"..." Know guy who found one in the rafters of his basement up the street from the Inglis plant. It was a "Lunch Box Special". Literally stolen out of the plant by a workie who carried it out in his lunch box.
All Inglis HP's were made in 1944 and '45. Anything is possible with 'em. 1945 being 74 years ago.