Inland without the Month only Year

[ChipS]

I would like to see the whole barrel and hear some provenance. From what I can see I don't even think this barrel is an original USGI barrel. Stamping is very ragged with letters misaligned, and it looks like it was done last month - maybe it was. Possibly a left coast knock-off? JMHO, ChipS

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[browningautorifle]

I don't think there's much danger of it being reproduction...

[imntxs554]

i also received 4 usgi operating guide Springs 2 are10 5/8" the other 2 10" which should i go with, Thanks

Frank

[Bruce McAskill]

I would not trust anything off of Wikkpedia. Too many times the information is all wrong on almost any subject. List most of the serial number and someone can tell you if the date is correct or not. USGI recoil springs should be in the area of 10 1/4 inches long. There were at least two different times that Inland didn't date their barrels with one being in 1943 and the other in 1944.

[imntxs554]

It tells you this information comes from Inland, they just dkd make it up....look at whefe they got there source from and you probably will still not go by what Inland said.

[Bruce McAskill]

One thing is for sure, Wikipedia didn't get the information from Inland as Inland didn't publish or release it after the war and it was later mostly pieced together by collectors who found information about Inland production. I will say if you believe in what that site may say your sadly misinformed. If you want to get some of the best information available then get a copy of Ruth's War Baby and read it from cover to cover then read it again to get information you may have missed the first time. If you really want to get into carbine collecting then become a member of the carbine club. Then buy all of the past issues of the news letters and again read them all then do it again. The information in War Baby and the news letters is as good as it gets. HTH

[imntxs554]

The Inlander. Vol 1, Issue 1, 1935-36
Dayton History Books Online: Home Sweet Home Front: Dayton During World War II by Curt Dalton. 2000. "Factories Gear Up".
History of Inland. Inland Manufacturing Division, General Motors Corporation. Dayton, Ohio. April, 1964
General Motors in the Twentieth Century by Alan K. Binder, Deebe Ferris. Ward’s Communications, 2000s, This is where i go through and read alot aboit Inland u der wikipedia but i guess theres other sources

Frank

[firstflabn]

Who could fail to be impressed by the wealth of carbine info contained in a 1935-36 issue of The Inlander. Bet it's chock full of serial number data.

Post a link to this supposed source. I can't make heads or tails of your scribbling.

[imntxs554]

It wasnt my scribble it was copy and pasted , thanks. Scroll down to read all the page the ones in Black and White, but i bet a you seen it before....Thanks

Inland Division of GM in World War Two.

Frank

[BrianQ]

The Inlander. Vol 1, Issue 1, dtd 1935-36 was six years before the first carbine was manufactured. At that time Inland didn't even know they would be manufacturing M1 Carbines for the war that would start three years later.

There is absolutely no carbine serial number data in Inland's Personnel Divisions Training Section History report.

Inland did publish some serial number data in the form of weekly test reports. Some of the reports have surfaced but most have not.

Wikipedia and Harrison's book are the two absolute worst sources for factual information on the M1 Carbine.