Germans with captured Thompson sub machine gun

[GeeRam]

The UK original PAM shows 1921 guns and I know there were some.

Not sure what PAM stands for, but I've only seen written that the very first contract purchase by the War Dept (prior to Lend-Lease of course) was direct with Auto-Ordnance and they were all Savage made M1928 guns...?

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I would bet that it is a Savage 1928A1, the early Savage production rivaled the Colt 1921.

France did purchase some Colt 1921 smgs just before the war and not all had the cutts comp
while all 28A1 smg's had the cutt comp

I bet its not even an A1, all the early pre-lend lease guns bought commercially by UK were M1928 with no A or A1 suffix.

The French order was never delivered, as France had surrendered before they were delivered and they were diverted to the UK from what I recall reading. Maybe some of these were Colt '21's...?