New Inglis High Power Comes Home Pictures UP

[albayo]

I just completed a trade on an Inglis Mk. I* High Power.
If it has just Mk. I* dos that mean it is a No. 1?
One of my source books states all No 2's serial numbers incorporate the letter T in the serial number.
Another book states the No 2 started after the 2T serial group.
It looks like it hasn't had much use but it doesn't have any mags.
The serial number starts with 2T, and was manufactured in Sept 1944.
I think the previous owner might have discarded the mag or mags when the laws changed, I need a source for mags?
I haven't shot one in years but have some DA and IVI 9mm is it ok to put that through it?


Brought it home today.

 

[TheOldSarge]

The DA and IVI ammo will be OK, because that's what these Pistols fired in Military use.

 

[CdnCombatMedic]

I have a 2T Inglis as well.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...My-Long-Search-For-An-Inglis-Hi-Power-Is-Over

I have some detailed pics and there is some good info in some of the posts.

 

[Tom E Gun]

I have a Mk. 1* No. 2 pistol with a 0T50## serial number. I believe the majority of No. 2 pistols have a #T#### serial number, while most No. 1 pistols have a #CH#### serial number.

Are you looking for genuine JI mags or just generic Hi Power mags?



http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/963654-My-Inglis-Hi-Power-and-some-questions?highlight=inglis

 

[ipscgraz]

As far as the DA and IVI ammo goes, that stuff was made to cycle through Sterling SMG's. It really is hot stuff for a pistol.

If you want to shoot this in your high power you might want to consider putting in a stronger recoil spring; especially if your existing spring is as old as the gun itself.

Just my opinion

 

[albayo]

My gun is 2T9XX manufactured Sept 44
Serial number range was from 0T3224 to 2T1123
October 2T1124 to 3T6723
Found on page 266 "Canadian Diamond" "The Canadian High Power Pistol" by Clive Law.
Collector Grade Publications
This book was a recent acquisition, I forgot I had it in my library. I find it a bit confusing, interesting information about the countries that received them in post war years and how Canadian Arsenals priced themselves out of the market.

 

[black sunshine]

 

[CdnCombatMedic]

yeah I want to see pics of it as well.

 

[albayo]

Back a few years I received in a trade, reproduction decals that go on the grip of the Inglis HP.
I was thinking it would be great to have a minty HP and replace the missing decal with a repro.
I will get some pictures when it comes in. Have to wait for the cert and get an ATT to bring it home.

 

[GrantR]

The "No. 1" and "No. 2" designations refer to the configuration of the pistol -

No. 1 = the "Chinese" model, CH-numbered, with the tangent adjustable rear sight and the groove in the backstrap for shoulder-stock attachment.

No. 2 = the "Canadian" model, T-numbered, with fixed rear sight and no provision for the shoulder stock.

(I'm curious: what book says otherwise?)

 

[can14]

Some chinese contract frames were made into Canadian contract high power's. I have one which is cut for a stock with fixed sights. There were a lot of spare parts left over at Inglis after the chinese contract ended. Inglis had to deliver guns to the Canadian Government and delivered Chinese guns and made additional guns from the parts.

 

[GrantR]

Although there were a few "hybrids" with a No. 2 slide (with fixed rear sight) mated to a No. 1 frame during original production to use up parts, almost all pistols such as you describe were in fact No. 1 ("Chinese Model") pistols taken into Canadian or British service during the war, but subsequently converted to "No. 2 specifications" long after WWII, by machining away the tangent-adjustable rear sight base, and substituting the plain non-adjustable block rear sight. (In that case, of course, the slot for the shoulder stock remains .....)

In the British retrofit (late 1960's) the replacement sight was both soldered and pinned into place on the slide -

In the Canadian retrofit (early 1970's) the replacement sight was silver-soldered into place (no pins) -

In either case, however, close examination should reveal the modification -

 

[live4therut]

Congrats on the new acquisition! The best source I found is Clive laws book. I've talked to him on the phone and he IMHO is the number one source on hi powers in the country.

Cheers

 

[pw58]

anybody have an original ww2 CF holster or good pic of one ?

 

[Tom E Gun]

anybody have an original ww2 CF holster or good pic of one ?

Which style? I have a Type F...

 

[albayo]

I have a couple of different WW II holsters boxed up and packed away, now I have to dig them out.
A few years ago I had a JI HP with 5CH serial number and tangent rear sight but no Chinese characters on the slide. It had a near mint Canadian stock with it. I think I had it on the site for a while and was slow to sell at $1100. Now just a T model is about that price.
Can't wait for the ATT to bring it home.
This year is the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion and the 100th of the beginning of WWI.
There might be a lot of nostalgia with both anniversaries in the same year.

 

[mg34]

my browning hp 35 has the following interesting numbers. 79xx was made on june 8.1938 (slide) this part was made for the china market. the frame 62xx was made on may 19, 1938 and shipped to china for the govt contract. it has the tangent sight and the slot for the shoulder stock. the parts somehow made it back to Canada to be put together where I purchased it many years ago and love to shoot her at the range. the info is from a letter I received from FN.

 

[woodchopper]

I have an Inglis HP and a FN HP, the FN has Waffenstamps.

Great pistols



As for IVI and DA ammo the HPs have been shooting that ammo for years. Its the whimpy sigs that nees non issue ammo.

 

[bogusiii]

No.1 Mk.1* and No.2 Mk.1*

 

[GrantR]

anybody have an original ww2 CF holster or good pic of one ?

First type (Chinese contract specifications) -

Second type -

When the Inglis pistol first made it into the field in Europe (early 1945, possibly very late in 1944) contemporary photos show it being carried in a variety of existing holster patterns. For example (left to right) - standard pattern 1937 revolver holster, flap open; standard P37 revolver holster with spare mag pouch affixed to front; P37 Armoured Corps pattern revolver holster ....

The first type of holster specifically intended for the Inglis wasn'tt too popular, according to Clive Law - too stiff and tight, so the flap was difficult to close over the pistol, so one sees photos of it being used with the flap unfastened or even tucked back behind -

As for the second type of Inglis holster, I can't recall ever seeing a WWII-vintage photograph showing it actually being used in the field .... although I assume it dis see some such service. This photo shows British MajGen A.J. Cassels (Officer Commanding Commonwealth Troops during the Korean War) presenting a medal to a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment -