Manufacturing of Mauser Rifles
Am curious--did Mauser manufacture all of the various models (Chilean, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, etc.,) in Germany or where they manufactured (under the Mauser license) in the country to which they are attributed?
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The Swedish Mauser was done both ways. The Swedes got a license to manufacture the Mauser, and most of these rifles were manufactured in Sweden. However quite a few were manufactured at the Mauserwerks in Oberndorf, Germany. In fact, Mauser built a special building in Oberndorf just to build the Swedish rifles.
The early Turkish Mausers were made in Germany. Some of the later ones were built under license in Turkey. Spain got a license and manufactured many Mausers in Spain.
The early Chilean Mauser, the Model 1895, was manufactured entirely in Germany. Whether Chile actually built any of their later Mausers I am not sure.
As I understand it, even the US paid Mauser a license to manufacture the 1903 Springfield, as it used many of the Mauser features.0 -
quote:Originally posted by HAIRY
Am curious--did Mauser manufacture all of the various models (Chilean, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, etc.,) in Germany or where they manufactured (under the Mauser license) in the country to which they are attributed?
There are/were a number of countries that produced Mausers. Among them are Poland, Iran, Belgium, Spain, Czeckoslovakia (sp?) Sweden & even Japan. There were over 100 million 98 types built, Lord knows how many of all Mauser models.0 -
Allen, Chile never manufactured any of its own Mauser rifles. At the time there were no government arms factories (still the case after WWII) and only a handfull of private plants- none of which were able to produce large caliber rifles. Most of the Chilean rifles were produced by DWM, Ludwig and Lowe, and of course the later Model 1912 rifles which came from Steyr.
As for the payment of royalties to Mauser: The simple fact was that Mauser held a number of registered US Patents which covered many of the features of the new Springfield Rifle. The Chief of Ordance really did not feel like paying the German's a dime but US patent attorny Arthur Frazier felt otherwise! In the end the US agreed to pay a royaly of 75 cents per rifle and 50 cents for each 1,000 clips produced until an amount of $200,000 was reached. These royalty payments ended in July, 1909 when the US Comptroller ruled that we had meet our obligations under the agreement.
China produced many thousands of Model 21 rifles at the Kwantung Arsenal between 1932 and 1937 and these were heavily used by the Northern Chinese Army. These were unlicensed copies of the FN Model 30 rifles. After China had purchased over 165,000 of the FN Mausers they decided to simply pirate the design. After WWII various Chinese state arsensals produced ten of thousands of the so called Chang Kai-Shek short Mauser rifles for use against the communists. HAIRY, the details of these Mauser exports rifles are so long an involved that you could fill ten books and never scratch the surface!
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There are/were a number of countries that produced Mausers. Among them are ... Iran, ... Czeckoslovakia (sp?)
A note here: The Mausers made for Iran were in fact made in Czechoslovakia. Weren't some Mausers also made in Yugoslavia? I know Israel got some WWII era ones and converted then to .308.
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Originally posted by chunkstyle
A note here: The Mausers made for Iran were in fact made in Czechoslovakia. Weren't some Mausers also made in Yugoslavia? I know Israel got some WWII era ones and converted then to .308.
Actually, according to Ludwig Olsen's fine book on Mausers, a number of 98/29, 7.92 mm mauser rifles were produced at a factory in Iran It was under Czech supervision. at least initially.
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This Iranian made Mauser was known as the Model 49 Carbine and was produced at the Iranian State Rifle Factory in Mosalsalsasi (I don't know if that is the absolute correct spelling) starting in 1949. Just a Brayhaven said the Czech's provided the technical help in getting the factory set up and producing the rifles. Prior to WWII the Iranians orderd over one hundered thousand of the Czech Mauser 98/29 (Persain Model 1310) from Brno and had another large order in place for 100,000 Model VZ 24 rifles and short rifles when Czechoslovakia fell to the Germans. In my opinion the Iranian crests are among the nicest looking of all those crests found on the export Mausers. A man could spend his entire life collecting export Mauser rifles and never obtain a decent looking example of each type as the field is so broad- and quite interesting.
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Cool. I know the rifle Saddam liked to shoot in the air for the camera was a Persian Mauser.
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