While Ithaca is known for its topnotch shotguns like the classic Model 37, the company was once known for its 1911 as well. Will it be once again? US Army Ithaca Model 1911A1 Bringback USAF. Terapia Doktora Gersona Ebook Login. 45 ACP Semi. 1911 A1 Serial Number. This is a U.S. Government marked Ithaca Model 1911 A1 pistol.

Fine WWII Ithaca Model 1911A1 Pistol, c. 1944 Product Description Fine WWII Ithaca Model 1911A1 Pistol, c. 1944 Please see photos at: This is a fine condition and original WWII Model 1911 A1.45 ACP Pistol manufactured by the Ithaca Gun Company in 1944. With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, the Ordnance Department began to consider how to increase small arms production in the event the United States entered the war. Part of the planning was to identify companies that could manufacture small arms beyond those manufactured at the time by either principal private contractors or by national armories. In June 1939, the Ordnance Department requested bids for educational orders on 1911 A1 pistols from numerous firms including Harrington & Richardson Arms Company, the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Marlin Fire Arms Company, Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Singer Manufacturing Company, Savage Arms Company, Iver John Arms and Cycle Works and Lanston Monotype Machine Company. Of these private companies, Singer and Harrington & Richardson received educational orders.

Harrington & Richardson engaged in preliminary work but never completed a finished 1911A1 pistol. Singer Manufacturing produced 500 Model 1911A1 pistols under an educational order. In June 1940, the Rochester District Ordnance Office asked the Ithaca Gun Company to submit a bid for an educational contract, W-ORD-648-41-48, for the manufacture of 100 to 500 Model 1911A1 pistols. Singer furnished drawings and specifications used in the production of its educational order to Ithaca. Ithaca’s contract was cancelled, however. The next year, 1941, Colt approached Ithaca with a proposal to manufacture parts for the Model 1911A1 pistol under subcontract to Colt. Colt’s plan was to provide Ithaca with the tooling and other equipment used by Remington-UMC when it produced Model 1911 pistols during WWI.

The equipment and tools was largely unserviceable and that contract was also cancelled. In January 1942, the Chief of the Rochester District asked Ithaca to submit a bid for the manufacture of 500 Model 1911A1 pistols per day. Ithaca submitted a proposal and it was accepted resulting in Ithaca’s first pistol contract, W-740-ORD-2263, in May 1942. The total production under this contract was for 60,000 Model 1911A1 pistols.

Under the terms of this contract, the U.S. Government would furnish the tooling and Ithaca was to begin deliveries in December 1942. Both Harrington & Richardson and Singer provided their drawings and Singer also provided some of the tooling and gauges from their educational order but much more was needed. As a result, the Ordnance Department contracted with Remington Rand, who was already producing the Model 1911A1, to obtain additional tooling and equipment for Ithaca. Numerous delays resulted and a complete set of tools and equipment was not on hand at Ithaca until March 1943, which was when Ithaca was supposed to have been commencing deliveries of completed pistols. From the outset, then, Ithaca was behind schedule. Cephalometric Tracing Program For Kids. To help them catch up, Colt provided numerous parts to Ithaca, which were incorporated in early Ithaca Model 1911A1 production.

For example, some of Ithaca’s first pistols used early Colt Model 1911 frames, which had the finger cuts on both sides of the trigger guard milled and old markings removed. Bovine Pdf. Colt also provided Ithaca with several thousand slides that were newly manufactured by Colt to 1911A1 specifications. Ithaca initially subcontracted with the High Standard Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut for barrels. Later, the government furnished Ithaca with the barrels and the contract price per pistol was adjusted. Most of Ithaca’s barrels were still manufactured by High Standard but a limited number were produced by Springfield Armory and then later by the Flannery Bolt Company after the Springfield Armory barrel production line was transferred to Flannery in the fall of 1943. Ithaca used magazines procured from the M. Little Company of New Haven, who subcontracted production to its subcontractors, the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut and the Risdon Tool and Machinery Company of Naugatuck, Connecticut.

All Ithaca Model 1911A1 pistols were manufactured with a dull military finish. The earliest Ithaca pistols were finished using the Type III “DuLite” black oxide process until the summer of 1943. In July 1943, Ithaca transitioned to the “Parkerized” finish using the Type II zinc phosphate finish, which occurred in Ithaca’s 88xxxx serial number range. Ithaca contracted with the Keyes Fibre Company of New York City to produce its stocks. These stocks were made of checkered, brown plastic with an escutcheon ring around the outside screw holes and with reinforcing ribs on the inside. Keyes’s star “K” mark and a mold number was stamped on the inside of each stock panel. In addition to using components from Colt and Remington Rand, Ithaca also used parts made under subcontract by numerous other companies, including the Hartford Screw Machine Company, Cayuga Motors, Wright Engineering Company, General Pressed Metals, Lux Clock Company and Yawman Metal Products.