Auto ordnance 1927 machine gun serial numbers#
This Thompson is listed by serial number in Herigstad's "Colt Thompson Submachine Gun Serial Numbers and Histories," Vol. It comes with one 20 round stick magazine. A matching serial number is present on the trigger housing, covered by the stock. All other features of this rare carbine remain unchanged. Since these alterations were all performed by the factory on already brand new guns, they did not refinish them and instead just used touch up bluing to fill in the remarked areas. The only other factory alteration was on the lower trigger housing where the word "FULL" was also milled off and left blank. U.S.A." The right side markings were unaltered, showing the five lines of patent dates along with the two line "AUTO-ORDNANCE CORPORATION, NEW YORK U.S.A", and the top of the receiver is still marked with "THOMPSON" inside their "bullet" logo. 45 AUTOMATIC COLT CARTRIDGE/MANUFACTURED BY/COLT'S PATENT FIRE ARMS MFG. The remaining receiver markings all remained as follows: "CALIBRE. The left rear portion of the receiver was originally "THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN" which has also ben milled off and restamped "THOMPSON SEMI-AUTOMATIC CARBINE".
The markings were changed as following: the left side of the receiver was originally marked: "MODEL OF 1921" which was milled off and restamped "MODEL OF 1927", with the old serial number "4706" below the marking block. The standard receiver markings were milled out and remarked, and the internal components changed to semi-automatic fire only. There were two basic models: the 1927A model without the compensator and the 1927AC model (like this example) with the Cutts Compensator on the barrel. Although semi-automatic, they are still tracked/registered with their original (1921) serial number. 45 acp, of course one of our earlier videos with a 'real' thompson submachinegun: shooting a thompson 1928a1 with a vertical grip. an icon that everyone recognizes from all the gangster movies, no not the shooting johns 1927 a1 sbr, in. 45Auto Description: For more than 100 years, the Chicago Typewriter®, the time-honored submachine gun, has been a favorite among collectors and shooting enthusiasts. Auto Ordnance Tommy Gun 1927 A1 'the Chicago Typewriter' the thompson 1927 a1, semi auto 45 acp long gun. There were actually less than 100-150 of the original semi-automatic models ever manufactured/converted by the factory and original unaltered examples are very rare. Auto Ordnance 1927 A1 Semi- Auto Thompson. With all the interest in these weapons in the late 1920s, the Auto-Ordnance company decided to try and capitalize on their popularity by introducing a "semi-automatic" version available for sale to the general public or police that only wanted a semi-automatic weapon. Originally these started out as a standard Colt Model 1921 fully automatic SMG firing the standard. This is a very rare variant of the highly desirable Colt Model 1927 (AC) Thompson that was factory (Auto-Ordnance) modified to "Semi-Automatic" fire only.
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