Interesting issued H.P.

[stencollector]

What's interesting is that the engraving in Chinese looks half finished... I wonder when the slide was made?

The engraving was complete as shown in the photo. The Mandarin engraving was deleted from production in May of 44.

The Stens destined for Chinese contract were also similarily marked. There was a large batch (from approx 11L3000 serial numbers to the 12L7000 (end of production) which were all inscribed but never sent over. These were then put in to Cdn or Brit service. In korea, our forces were capturing Cdn produced guns from the Chinese.

 

[recce]

It would be intersting to know of any CH serials in service today to see if they correspond with the numbers given in the book. Only a small portion of the total holdings of the Cdn Navy are listed, mind you.

When I get a look at it again I'll let you know what it is. I'm certain it was CH ###X though.

 

[NavyShooter]

All the navy pistols I've seen (limited to about 25-30) were in the 1T-9T range, no CH prefixes, all without the butt-stock slot and the fixed rear sight.

The one I had assigned to me for a while was 1T235

Kinda an old pistol based on the S/N...

NS

 

[stencollector]

All the navy pistols I've seen (limited to about 25-30) were in the 1T-9T range, no CH prefixes, all without the butt-stock slot and the fixed rear sight.

The one I had assigned to me for a while was 1T235

Kinda an old pistol based on the S/N...

NS

The 1T235 pistol was produced in Aug of 44.
The odds of finding a CH number in the naval service today is no more likely than in army service. The navy had all their no1s exchanged for No2s on unification, and the no1s would have undergone conversion at CAL to no2 configuration.

 

[GrantR]

From the various comments made about the decals, it seems clear that many people think they were unique to Inglis pistols ...

Nothing could be further from the truth - that symbol was to be used on all Canadian War Supplies distributed by the Canadian Mutual Aid Board - either on the packaging or on the articles themselves ....

Notice that the symbol was made available in three different media (decals, dry transfers and varnished labels) - and that there were four sizes of decals ... the smallest (1" diameter) being used on Inglis pistols -

The name "Canada" was placed around the edge of the symbol in Roman, Cyrillic, and Chinese alphabets - so it would be readable anywhere our aid was likely to go - i.e. "Canada" would be recognizable anywhere in the British Commonwealth, of course, but also to Free French, Belgian and Polish forces - i.e. anyone using a Roman based alphabet. And the Cyrillic and Chinese versions covered most, if not all, of the other bases .... don't forget that there are lots of other Slavic-speaking nations using the Cyrillic alphabet besides Russia, for example.

 

[GrantR]

As already mentioned, quite a few No. 1 pistols (i.e. the CH-numbered, tangent-
sighted ones slotted for the shoulder stock) ended up in Canadian and British small arms
inventories ... but both countries ultimately had a post-war program to modify
any of that type of pistol remaining in their inventory to No. 2 configuration, by milling off
the base for the adjustable rear sight and relacing it with a fixed sight of the same
configuration as the No. 2 pistols. (The stock-attachment slots were left in place on
the gripframe ...)

However, according to Clive Law in Inglis Diamond, this wasn't done in Canada until
the 1970's, when only a few hundred No. 1 pistols remained to be converted, because
Canada had long since disposed of thousands of the No. 1 pistols in its inventory
through postwar aid programs (to the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.)

I recently acquired one such pistol - it is clearly marked with a C-Broadarrow on the
left side of the slide, at the rear - much larger than the small C-Broadarrow
stamped into the right side of the frame, just below the slide, on all Inglis pistols,
of both No. 1 and No. 2 configuration. Based on this, and the markings on the magazines
which came with it, it is almost certainly one of almost 1600 Inglis pistols Canada
supplied to Belgium in 1950 ... apparently all of the No. 1 configuration (i.e. "Chinese
Model") -