M1917 Cartouche??

[Doug Rammel]

Inland was a division of GM. Also Frigidaire was GM and they didn't make Kelvinators. Both plants were a little south of Dayton Ohio. One of my shooting buddies has an Inland Carbine that was presented to his Uncle. It is unfired except for proofing. The uncle was the General Manager of Inland. It's gorgeous. My Mother and my aunt both assembled carbines at Inland during the war.
Have a good day

[AlReiter]

GM manufactured at least 3 of the carbines (Inland, Dayton, OH; Saginaw Stearing Gear, Saginaw MI; and Saginaw Stearing Gear, Grand Rapids, MI). I also believe that Standard Products, Port Clinton, OH, was a GM subsidiary, but I could be wrong about that one

[Bolo Badge]

If I am not mistaken that in addition to M1 Carbines Geneal Motor's Guide Lamp Division produced the M3 Submachine Gun.

[tmark]

Hello, Lance,

I have an Inland carbine whose barrel is stamped Inland, Division of General Motors, 1944. You are correct in stating that many, many subcontractors had a hand in making parts for the carbines. M1 carbine manufacture certainly was a cooperative/collaborative effort. So, I conclude GM, at least a Division thereof, did make barrels for the Inland Carbine.

Larry Ruth is the expert; you have a great reference.

Thanks for your response.

Thomas

[AlReiter]

tmark, Inland, a division of GM in Dayton, OH, made most if not all of the parts for the M1 Carbines that bear their name/logo.

[Lancebear]

Sorry guys.....just plain forgot. Thanks for the posts.

LB

[Lancebear]

And Liberator pistols. Remembered that one.

LB

[Jim K]

Also thousands of .30 and .50 machineguns, 20 and 40 mm AA guns, etc., etc. If the U.S. had depended on the "traditional" firearms companies for weapons in WWII, we would never have been able to turn out the quantity of arms we did.

(A famous story has a GM engineer watching production of M1911A1 pistols at Colt telling a Colt man, "You are not making guns, you are producing chips, the gun is a by-product." He was right, of course. Not until the postwar era and guns like the Ruger Standard Model did some U.S. arms makers get away from producing chips.)

Jim

[Dan Wilson]

The smelly #4's that are marked US PROPERTY were made by Savage as part of lend lease so during that period the "LEND" was paramount (cause we were technically neutral at that time) so it was marked US PROP so it was not a transfer and that maintained our "neutrality"

Dan

[Dan Wilson]

Yep, most of the parts on my three 1919's were made by Saginaw
They made lots of cool things back then.

Dan