![]() All Type Ones apparently got early Keyes Grips lacking the reinforcement ring around the screw.ġ and 2: My first Type One which spurred the interest, serial 921,543. They would provide most of the barrels for RR production and all were DuLite blue. High Standard provided barrels on many Type Ones but they were just getting geared up for production. Very early production guns can have parts provided by Colt(barrels, slide stops and grip and thumb safety) and Spring Armory field service parts(barrels and slide stops). Most got early style milled triggers but some got later stamped triggers. They had checkered parts including the mainspring housing, slide stop, thumb safety, hammerand mag release. Clawson his guess he said 10,000 was "about right".Īll Type Ones had a DuLite Blue chemical blue which was approved by Ordnance as an acceptable substitute for Parkerizing until Parkerizing phosphate equiptment was obtained. As seldom encountered as they are I lean toward the 10,000 number and when I asked Mr. Estimates of total Type one pistols run between 10,000-15,000 depending on who you ask. Type 2 logos came in somewhere in the 925,000 range and each type can be found in this range with no distinct cutoff. ![]() This is referred to as the Type 1 and ran from about serial number 916,405 till about 931,?(Clawson says 935,000ish). The first ones were the large slide logo with New York spelled out and had a Dulite blue finish. The pistols began coming off the line in November 1942. They also contributed to improvements and manufacturing techniques. ![]() He also says that their goal of making a high quality pistol in the most quantity and for the lowest cost was accomplished. Remington Rand made more M 1911A1's than all other makers in WW2, 877,751 per Charles Clawson(CC). Then I discovered a Type 1 in DuLite blue and I was hooked. When I first started collecting the US 19A1's more than twenty years ago I thought the Remington Rands to be common and boring. Corrections, additions, clarifications, comments etc. I am not real happy with the pics but too bad of weather to give'em another try. I am gonna attempt to make a contribution on one of my favorite subjects-The Remington Rand 1911A1 pistol and it's evolution from late 1942 till mid 1945.
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