Large caliber Luger proto?

Hello Cantom, I think the story was bogus when my father bought that from the seller. The seller probably thought it would give value to a non-working seized up rusted piece of junk...
I think this prototype never left Canada and was probably made in the Ross's Quebec factory sometimes between 1905 and 1907.
Regards.
 
55recce said:
Some years ago I did a back room tour of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. At one point I was handed a smallish clear plastic nag with a number of parts in it and was told this was a prototype Ross semi auto pistol. I am wondering if it would be worth contacting the museum.
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Good idea.
 
I will try to find a copy and read the page myself, I am in the country and not much around but it could be that the local library owns a copy. I now know for sure that Ross Rifles was invited to present a .45 ACP handgun but never finished it, so I am satisfied that this is a prototype made for this purpose. In any case I will see what is in that book about the A2 automatic pistol, which implies there must be a A1...

Regards
 
DOOK said:
Surely one of you guys could scan a page or two for the Gentleman?
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Not that I want to infringe on property rights or anything, just want to know what is on page 375 as it seems relevant. Is there anything else about the A2 automatic pistol? I won't tell anyone ;-)
 
cantom said:
Will look for my Ross Rifle Story, but things are pretty buried just now due to a hardwood floor installation.
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I have a copy coming from the local library, they don't have one in our village but they can borrow from other libraries, so I will get it in a few weeks. I will read the whole thing when I get it now that I have an interest in Ross. I look forward to reading page 375.

Good luck with the floor.

Cheers
 
I have now seen that page 375 which depicts the gun I have, exactly that gun. Thank you for all the help to identify this prototype, I had a ball. I am waiting for a response from the Museum in Ottawa to possibly identify the initials on it and I'll have the hole story.

Cheers!
 
There are a couple pages of info on Ross automatic pistols in the TRRS that you will probably want to read as well.

Sounds like William Oliver Barnes did most of the design work on these for Ross.
 
Ax.338 said:
There are a couple pages of info on Ross automatic pistols in the TRRS that you will probably want to read as well.

Sounds like William Oliver Barnes did most of the design work on these for Ross.
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I am looking forward to reading that book.
 
Squadron303 said:
I really enjoyed this thread. OP, thanks for posting.
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It gave me a lot of satisfaction too. At the beginning I thought it was a prototype lugger for the .45 ACP stamped GL for Georg Luger, I was shaking then! When that fell apart I discovered it was still a .45 prototype for the trials but from a different company that could never make the gun work. I still have some things to find out about this piece: The markings on the gun GL and M, were those stamped in the shop? How many prototypes were made and could the A-2 really shoot in a semi-automatic fashion? I doubt it as the patent filed in 1906 (after the shop drawing dated 1904) shows a nasty spring in the back as necessary to close the breech. I am sure TRRS will answer some of those questions.

I am glad you enjoyed the thread, I sure did!
 
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