![]() ![]() They also produced the highest number of. An interesting fact about Remington Rands is that more than half the work force was women. Other companies that also made these for the Government were of course Colt, Ithaca, Union Switch & Signal, and Singer, who made only a very small quantity. During WW II times, there were many civilian product related companies that were under contract to the US Government to manufacture “war effort” related items, just as S&W was under contract to make revolvers for our troops. This pistol was made by Remington Rand under a US Government Contract in the mid 1940’s. It seems this particular pistol never got the opportunity to do its job. 45 Automatic meant for US Army Government Issue, and for a soldier to carry into battle, to help save lives of our American troops during World War II. Here is a post I did on thie Forum quite a while back about a Remington Rand I own as well as some interesting information about the company. Colt, US&S and Singer all did, the pistols contracts were relatively small potatos compared to the other things they were involved in. (1) I don't think Rem-Rand had any other contracts other than pistols awarded to them. They all had to meet certain requirements or they wouldn't have gotten accepted. I don't think any of them are "better" than the others. I suspect both would fire many rounds before that happened. I have no idea what would happen if you had five of each and just kept firing them until parts started to break or failures occurred. However, the pistols I've seen made by both are very good for what they were designed for. I've always heard that Ithaca had the most problems and I have no reason to doubt this. Then James Rand himself stepped in and got things cracking. You will recall early on, they did have some real problems with rejects. stamped triggers, serrated instead of checkered parts. They were instrumental in finding some ways to cut production time and cut costs, i.e. I think a lot of the kudos heaped upon Rem-Rand had more to do with the ability to out produce(1) the other manufacturers and make a good quality product. ![]()
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