I didn't say the clips couldn't be re-used if serviceable, I said they were not really intended to be re-used. Like the ammo itself (and men's lives), the loss of clips was considered part of the cost of fighting a war.
I have a bunch of 7.5 ammo in those clips and while they are cheap, IMHO they are better than the Swisscardboard and tin stripper clips. The modern approach is the engineering one - there is no need to make a product better than it has to be to meet the need. The old timers over-engineered everything, from handguns to railroad locomotives, because they couldn't determine the failure point without creating a failure.
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