Did Long Branch make Inglis Browning HP buttstocks?

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I see on the buttstock in this ad from the EE, SA Ltd on the side of the tangent sighted Inglis HP.
Would that have been made at Small Arms Ltd. (Long Branch) ?

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2298279#post2298279

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LongBranch did not make the buttstocks, but they made the wooden parts and then assembled the product, using metal parts which were made by Inglis. According to the book "the Inglis Diamond", the decision to do it this way was "based solely on Inglis' lack of woodworking expertise, and SALs demonstrated capabilities in the area".

SAL assembled a total of 29,038 of these holsters. When the contract for Chine was cancelled, and no other buyers were wanting the 1,053 that SAL had on hand, they were disposed of through Crown Assets (War Assets back then).
 
In a word ..... YES!

The John Inglis Co. did not have the woodworking capability, and subcontracted the holster/stocks to Small Arms Ltd., using metal components made by Inglis, as Stencollector has already indicated.

This National Archives of Canada image, reproduced by Clive Law in both Canadian Military Handguns, 1855 - 1885 and Inglis Diamond, The Canadian High Power Pistol, shows a Long Branch worker posing with the No. 1 "Try Pistol" they had for checking the fit and function of the stocks. It lacks a barrel, extractor, trigger group and other internal parts, and is stamped "WOODSHOP INSPECTION" on the right front of the slide (you can just see the second word in this small-size version, but the marking is clearly discernible in larger, higher-resolution photos .....)

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The original pic from the archives stated "Female worker Madeline Solotwinski checks the wooden holster/emergency butt on a Chinese pistol, converting it into a sub-machine gun; Small Arms Ltd. plant."
 
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