#Fn 1905 pocket full
The 1903 Colt Pocket Model was considerably smaller than the 1903 FN Grande Modèle (which did not go into full production until 1907). The internal factory designation for the gun was Model M. 38 caliber pocket model, Colt also referred to it as the Colt Hammerless Pocket Model, though it is not a true hammerless design. version.Ĭolt’s did not wait for the patent to be granted, but began tooling up late in 1902, and began production of what they called the “Colt Automatic Pistol, Pocket Model” in June 1903.Ĭommercial sales began in August. patent, which was filed on 3 April 1902 and granted on 22 December 1903 (№747,585), but that was the only design change he made for the U.S. Make at least 100 guns per day and sell them at a price that would be competitive with revolvers in the U.S., as well as give him a 40 cent royalty on every gun produced. Because of its larger size, it became known as the “Grande Modèle.”Īt this point, Colt’s was looking for an automatic pistol that would have the kind of commercial success that the 1900 FNīrowning had had, and despite its blowback action they asked Browning to patent his FN design in the U.S. Browning, who was in his prime, delivered a prototype of the pistol to the FN factory in Herstal,īelgium in February 1902, and FN engineers immediately began improving the design and readying it for production. FN asked Browning to design a gun for it. It was nothing more than a scaled-up 7.65mmīrowning (.32 A.C.P), with the same straight case and semi-rimmed design. FN designed a 9mm cartridge which became known as the 9mm Browning Long. By contrast, the original 1900 Colt Automatic Pistol had a total production run of less than 5000.Īs early as 1901 FN was anxious to put a larger military pistol on the market. The FN was a stunning commercial success, with a production record of 100,000 pistols within three years and a total production of 724,450 over twelve years. 32 caliber, and the following year Colt’s began to manufacture the Colt Automatic Pistol in. So it was that FN manufactured the 1899/1900 FN Browning in. According to Donald Bady, tacit in theseĪgreements was the understanding that Colt’s would manufacture Browning’s locked-breech recoil-operated designs and FN would manufacture the unlocked-breech “blowback” designs. Browning and Fabrique Nationale (FN) signed a similarĪgreement giving FN the right to sell Browning-designed weapons in much of Europe, and specifically excluding them from markets in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland. Browning’s pistol designs in the United States and market them in the United States, Great Britain, and Ireland.
The agreement gave Colt’s the exclusive right to Browning entered into an agreement with The Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company. On 24 July 1896 John Moses Browning and Matthew S.
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