When the United States entered the woefully misnamed “War to End All Wars” on April 6, 1917, the nation was immediately faced with a serious shortage of service rifles. The government had approximately 600,000 Model 1903 Springfields on hand along with some 160,000 obsolescent Krags, numbers totally insufficient to meet the projected demand.

Production of the standardized Model 1903 rifle was ordered to be increased at both and Rock Island Arsenal. Ordnance Dept. Consulted with Springfield and Rock Island engineers for ways to reduce production time and cost for ’03 manufacture but, without a substantial redesign, changes would only be cosmetic. It was apparent that the combined output of these two national arsenals could not meet demand, and large numbers of additional service rifles would soon be needed.

The Ordnance Dept. Had two options for procuring additional rifles: Seek additional manufacturing sources for the Model 1903 or adopt a second service rifle to augment the ’03. Le Retour De K2000 Torrent Saison 2 here. The former was explored at length, but the lag time required to find suitable firms capable and willing to manufacture the ’03 rifle, negotiate contracts, procure the necessary materials and machinery, then train workforces would be too great to alleviate the potential crippling shortage of rifles within a reasonable period of time. Thus, almost by default, the Ordnance Dept.

Crypkey Site Key Generator Crack here. MILITARY DATES OF MANUFACTURE. M1911 & M1911A1 Pistol: (all manufactures) M1917 Revolver. Model 1917 Rifle: Eddystone Model 1917. The M1917 Enfield, the 'American Enfield', formally named 'United States Rifle, cal.30, Model of 1917' was an American modification and production of the.303-inch Pattern 1914 Enfield rifle developed and manufactured during the period 1917–1918. Numerically, it was the main rifle used by the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during.

Dec 13, 2017 Pattern 1913/1914 and M1917 Rifles; Production dates. But has anyone found a reliable source for serial number production dates on the. 1917 Enfield. Jun 24, 2012 I am looking at a Eddystone m1917 that has some markings I have never seen before. Rucksack Keygen Photoshop here. It has serial numbers, 600,000 series, on the receiver(normal) but also on.

Was left with looking at another rifle as the only viable alternative. Sometimes, timing is everything, and it was fortuitous that at the time the United States declared war, three American plants were completing production of large numbers of the “Pattern 1914” rifles under contract for Great Britain. The.303 British Pattern 1914 rifle was a slight modification of the “Enfield.276-inch Magazine Rifle,” also known as the “Pattern 1913,” which was a modified Mauser design chambered for an advanced.276-cal. The workforces and production machinery used to manufacture the Pattern 1914 were still in place, thus the firms could almost immediately go into production for the U.S. The manufacturers were:, New Haven, Conn.;, Ilion, N.Y.; and Eddystone Rifle Plant, operated by Midvale Steel & Ordnance Co., an affiliate of Remington located in Eddystone, Pa. Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell later said that three large plants with trained workers and tooling intact at the right time to manufacture critically needed rifles was “well nigh providential.” While it was unquestionably fortunate to have these production facilities on hand, the Ordnance Dept.