Singer also made M-1 Carbines. Not too many. They are a prized
possession now.
Tom McHugh, NJ
52 M38A1
MVPA - MTA
On Sun, 6 May 2001 07:19:02 -0700 "Joe Garrett" <j.garrett@gte.net>
writes:
> International Harvester, IBM, Smith Corona, and Remington Rand among
> others
> made M1 carbines and/or M1 Garands for the war.
>
> Joe Garrett
> cell 425-344-1402
> Please note my new email address is
> j.garrett@gte.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of John K. Seidts
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 6:05 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [MV] What did your company do in the war daddy?
>
>
>
> Interesting thread. Just the other day, a Vietnam Veteran Medic
> friend of
> mine told me that he now works for American Seating Company- 114
> years old.
> I told him the name sounded familiar. When I passed by my NOS 1944
> packboard and looked at it- made by American Seating Company. I
> can't wait
> to tell him.
>
> At shows that I attend, people are sometimes speechless when I tell
> them
> about their companies and what they did during WWII. I am always
> assembling
> information about who did what during WWII. 10 blocks from my
> house, they
> built FM-2 Wildcats. 14 in the other direction, a company from
> Downtown
> Baltimore made buttons during the Civil War (Union and Confederate).
> Of
> course, I live less than four miles from the original entrance gate
> to Fort
> Holabird- the original grade test mounds are still there. I fly out
> of
> Martin State Airport, where more than half of the Martin B26
> Marauder's were
> built during WWII.
>
> My wife sometimes thinks I am not conscious of the present when we
> are
> driving down the roads. Perhaps I live in the past and fantasize
> about the
> present....
>
>
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