Inglis Chines Contract

[David H.]

Hi my first post here. I have this Inglis Chines Contract and I would like to find out more info about it. I know it has mixed slide on it. I understand some were switched at the factory before shipment but I'm inclined to believe it was switched during a armory rebuild. The S/N between them look to far apart. Any Info would be appreciated. I tried to insert image but won't let me. Thanks Dave

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[David H.]

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[Paul S.]

A very good number of the Chinese contract Inglis pistols were imported into the USA during the 1980s and early 1990s when trade with mainland China opened up. Your pistol is most likely one of them and as you suspect a re-build. Hence the hodge-podge of S/Ns.

Your pistol actually looks pretty good considering the horrible state some of the ones I saw back then.

[Brian Dick]

It looks like an honest pistol. Interesting marks on the front of the slide. Is there an import mark present, possibly on the bottom of the grip frame?

[David H.]

Brian, it dose have import marks present. They are so lightly struck it is hard to read. It says TWP inc. or something like that, (vary hard to read with two magnifying glasses together). They are behind the slide release on the frame, not visible unless the slide release is removed. The bore is nice and shiny, the inside is in vary good condition. The grip is inletted for a shoulder stock.

[David H.]

A few more photos

[Peter Laidler]

A lot of these were doing the rounds in South Vietnam that'd come down the HCM trail. And like Paul says, most of them were truly dire......... I got a No1 Mk1 that was quite good

[Paul S.]

Anything that could go bang came down the HCM trail. We 'collected' everything from MAT-49s and STENs to all sorts of Warsaw Pact and WWII German stuff after Tet '68. As Peter said, some of it was decent. In another place and another time, it would have been a good pickings for a collector.

[browningautorifle]

it would have been a good pickings for a collector

In some cases, it still was...

[Bruce McAskill]

I know of one stop on the Mekong River of a small boat that yielded cases of brand new Belgium made Hi-Powers all marked in Chinese. Well everyone who wanted one took one and then it was found out the ammo with them had gone bad. Not one round would fire. So the rest of the Hi-Powers and the ammo got the deep six going down the river.