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Pistol   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Guide Lamp Corporation
Title
Pistol
Object type Classification: NM3.7865
Description
English: Liberator centrefire single shot pistol, WW2 .45 inch calibre; single shot manual ejector; .45 inch A.C.P. cartridge (with 4 cartridges); to load and unload and check safety, withdraw striker to rear and give half turn, lift rear sight up and check breech, place round in chamber and push rear sight down, move hammer back to original position, pull action back to click, weapon is now cocked, there is no safety and only requires trigger to be pulled, drives firing mechanism to the rear and strikes the round; to eject tip out round; features large trigger guard permitted firing with gloved hand; absence of ejector and extractor permitted simple breech construction; fixed firing manufacturer Guide Lamp Corporation, c1942
Date 1940s
date QS:P571,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
; World War 2-wars
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length: 140mm
length: 105mm
width: 28mm
height: 125mm
notes: barrel

notes: overall
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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775582 (object number)
Place of creation United States of America
Credit line Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, W1903
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Liberator centrefire automatic pistol, WW2 Also known as the "SS Strategic Services pistol" It was made specifically for the Office of Strategic Services, USA, during WW2 as a spy gun. Made for Office of Strategic Services, USA headed by Wild Bill Donovan to meet demand for a cheap but effective gun for partisan and other resistance forces within Nazi-occupied territories. Design for effective .45” cal. single shot pistol formulated by Army Ordnance and contract let to Guide Lamp Corporation which completed tooling and production of million guns in the record time of thirteen weeks. Final deliveries in August 1942. Ultimate cost c. $2.00 and constructed entirely of non-strategic materials. Each gun individually packaged in sturdy paraffin coated cardboard box which included an instruction sheet, a wooden ramrod and 10 rounds of .45 ACP ammunition stored in butt of gun. With exception of 4” smoothbore seamless steel tubing barrel and die-cast percussion mechanism gun is constructed throughout of sheet steel stampings and a few steel pins and coil springs. Various parts are held together by a combination of folded seams, rivets, spot and acetylene welds. reference- Small Arms of the World page 73

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