AndyB
Senior Member
I believed too for long time the C prefixes rifles were delivered to Japan, after J.Smid researches in archives, there is no exact details about the serials or there are many movement done in late of 1938 and early 1939, so it should be sayed followed:
-C prefix lower ranges 0-40000 were send in 1938 to China
-certainly some numbers of P series went there too, unknown quantity and serial numbers
-some of the P prefixes were accepted into CS army in turbulent 1938 period,later exported
-higher numbered C prefix went as part of delivery to Japan in early 1939(many excellent pieces are confirmed as GI bringbacks)
-some rifles of the P range went too to Japan contract
-some unknown marked rifles send to Japan, probably of CS inventory?
-reason of all this missmatch was realisation of first large romanian contract for 300000 rifles, and short delivery termines, secondly the not accepting of romanians the chinese Vz.24 rifles because of lower quality steel material on sighting
-i assume some of the 1938 rifles to China, could be too captured by Japanese in war?
result is there is not only one letter prefix and one closed serial bunch delivered to Japan and to China.
I hope it helps a little.B.r.Andy
-C prefix lower ranges 0-40000 were send in 1938 to China
-certainly some numbers of P series went there too, unknown quantity and serial numbers
-some of the P prefixes were accepted into CS army in turbulent 1938 period,later exported
-higher numbered C prefix went as part of delivery to Japan in early 1939(many excellent pieces are confirmed as GI bringbacks)
-some rifles of the P range went too to Japan contract
-some unknown marked rifles send to Japan, probably of CS inventory?
-reason of all this missmatch was realisation of first large romanian contract for 300000 rifles, and short delivery termines, secondly the not accepting of romanians the chinese Vz.24 rifles because of lower quality steel material on sighting
-i assume some of the 1938 rifles to China, could be too captured by Japanese in war?
result is there is not only one letter prefix and one closed serial bunch delivered to Japan and to China.
I hope it helps a little.B.r.Andy
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