Approximately 23,850 M1935A pistols were manufactured under German occupation. Occupation forces took over the SACM factory and resumed fabrication of the pistol on 15 October 1940. Production continued until the German invasion in mid-1940-German In 1938, and stands for ‘Alsacienne’ in the company name.) Early deliveries took place in October of 1937. (The suffix ‘A’ was added to the model designation The Modèle 1935 was officially adopted early in 1937, and manufacture began almost immediately at the SACM factory in Alsace. 62x25mm Tokarev, virtually identical to the 7.63x25mm Mauser.
The Tokarev, however, utilized a much more powerful cartridge-the 7 The Petter and Tokarev were both single action, short-recoil, dropping-barrel designs, with unitized lockwork. This might also describe the Tula-Tokarev TT-30 pistol, which was likewise a copy of the Browning design, with improvements. The best features of the M1911, along with a few improvements. Was too large and heavy, and some French writers described its recoil as “brutal.” So the French were looking for a gun with The French had been impressed by M1911’s performance during the Great War, but must have felt the gun The Petter patent was clearly based on the Browning-designed Colt 1911.
Hammer, sear, and mainspring assembly was almost certainly derived from the Russian Tula-Tokarev pistol of 1930.Ĭharles Gabriel Petter was granted French patent number 782914 on 25 March 1935 Swiss patent 185452 on 31 July 1936 and U.S. The two guns have other similarities, which do not appear in the specifications, such as a captive recoil spring and guide rod assembly, and a loaded chamber indicator.
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A manual safety must be provided to block the hammer from striking the firing pin.A magazine safety must be provided to disconnect the trigger bar from the sear.The hammer, sear, and mainspring assembly must be constructed as a unit to facilitate replacement in the field.The gun must be a single-action design with one spring for both the hammer and sear.The gun must fire the 7.65mm long round.That the “S” would be any cheaper to manufacture.’ Apparently, the similarities the two guns display are a result of both meeting the design specifications of the Commission d’Experiences A close comparison of the two provides no evidence Medlin and Huon say, in regard to the 1935S: ‘First, the gun was submitted at the same time as the 1935A as a finished design and second, any examination of the “S” shows it to be completelyĭifferent from the “A” in a number of ways. To Medlin and Huon the 1935S was designed independently for the French military tests, though both guns were ultimately based on Browning’s 1911 Colt design via the Russian Tokarev. Many sources, including Josserand and Kinard, state that MAS redesigned Petter’s 1935 design to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture, and that this gun then became the 1935S but according Due to production limitations at the SACM factory, the French army general staff also adopted a competing design by the Manufacture Nationale d’Armes de Saint Ètienne (MAS), which This gun became known as the Modèle 1935A, and was the official sidearm of theįrench military until 1950. Mecaniques (SACM) which originated with their director, Charles Gabriel Petter. In 1937 the French Commission d’Experiences Techniques de Versailles, charged with selecting an automatic pistol for use by the French military, chose a design from the Societe Alsacienne de Constructions They invented the first pinfire cartridge, the first rimfire cartridge, the first center-fire cartridge, and smokeless powder.īut at the end of the Great War (World War I) their official sidearm was still the Model 1892 revolver. For many years, the French had been in the forefront of firearms design.
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