The different P38 variations produced during the nazi. Smith Wesson 5906 Serial Number Date Of here. Army decided to go for the more advanced P38. The grips have a. Serial numbers of this. The production started 1939 at Walther and at Mauser and Spreewerke 1942. Serial number: Finish: Re-finished: Grips. 'P.38' - serial number - 'ac44.

WWII German Spreewerke 'cyq' Code P.38 c. 1943 Product Description Fine WWII German Spreewerke 'cyq' Code P.38, c. 1943 Please see photos at: This is a fine condition and all matching WWII German P.38, manufactured by Spreewerke in November 1943.

When the German Army completed its P.38 testing with the end of the Fourth Variation Zero Series model manufactured by Walther, the P.38 was officially adopted as the German Army's standard side arm. Following this official adoption of the P.38, Walther produced the first true military P.38 known as the 480 Code P.38. Walther continued to refine the design of the P.38 with other variants that went into production. The P.38, although a significant improvement over the P.08 Luger, still involved time-consuming and expensive machining of parts. This led other German arms manufacturers to experiment with designs incorporating more steel stampings. The exigencies of the war, however, led to a halt of experimentation since the Wehrmacht needed existing weapons delivered in large numbers. This led, in May or June 1940, to Mauser being asked to examine the possibility of producing the P.38.

Despite the fact that Mauser would only have to manufacture an existing Walther design, as opposed to designing a new weapon, testing it, making product improvements, etc., Mauser experienced numerous production delays. The result was that Mauser’s first production P.38 did not roll off the assembly line until late September 1942, and the first delivery of Mauser P.38s to the Army did not occur until late December 1942. Germany’s military operations on the Russian front, as well as Allied operations in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and an expected second front in France, led to ever increasing demands for small arms, including the P.38. A third manufacturer of the P.38 was needed. Very little is known about Spreewerke as compared to Walther and Mauser, which were two well-known arms manufacturers in Germany. Spreewerke was listed at least as early as the late 1930s in the master German firms list as Spreewerke G.m.b.H. Metallwarenfabrik, Berlin-Spandau, Freiheit 4-7, as a hardware or metal wares factory.

There apparently was some connection during this time between Spreewerke and the famous Czech weapons manufacturer Skoda. It is known that Spreewerke was a subsidiary of the Deutsche Industrie Werke (“DIW”), a conglomerate of industrial works. It is also known that Spreewerke was a large supplier of steel products to the German war effort, including raw, refined, light and heavy steel. As part of this war production, Spreewerke, like all German manufacturers during WWII, was assigned a code, which was “cyq.” Although Spreewerke’s main offices and initial manufacturing locations were in Spandau, a northern suburb of Berlin, none of its P.38s were manufactured in Spandau. Spreewerke later added production facilities that were involved in P.38 production. One of these was in Grattau in the Sudentenland, which was a Czech town called Hradek nad Nisou.

Download Maria Schneider Orchestra Rapidshare Free. The second, and much larger of the two, was in the German city of Zittau. Because of the close geographical proximity to one another, and because of extensive rail and road connections between the two cities, they were sometimes referred to as Zittau-Grottau. Spreewerke caught the attention of German ordnance planners shortly after Mauser P.38 production got underway. The concern was that both Walther and Mauser were manufacturing P.38s at single production facilities. Attacks or any other disruption in production at a single plant would effectively halt the entirety of production. The ordnance planners sought to rectify this potential problem by contracting with another company in which various parts would be manufactured at different locations and brought together for assembly and testing at a central location.