Savage Marking Check

[Seaspriter]

Someone in another thread posted an interest to any truth that parts were shared between Savage and Longbranch.

Spike, this is the thread you were referring to:
Savage Enfield and my initial attempt to see if there was a connection:

I did check the railroad maps of the era and the story is actually quite plausible. (see http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/re...ad_map-600.jpg ) The New York Central Railroad ran from Boston through Springfield (Chicopee adjoins Springfield and surely had a spur line) right to Buffalo. The map shows a RR crossing at Niagara Falls through to Hamilton, to Mississauga on the Canadianicon Pacific Railroad (CPR)

While there is a lot of data on subcontractors supplying parts between prime contractors for M-1 Carbines, it's not clear (yet) if this happened between Long Branch and Chicopee in the 1943 era. What is known is that Savage-Stevens was ordered to reduce production at the end of 1943 and wound down production by June 1944, while Long Branch's production slowed down at the beginning of 1944 and was finally finished by summer of 1945, a full year after Savage. Excess inventory of parts from Savage were apparently shipped to Long Branch to supplement production during Long Branch's last year of production.