Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---------- >From: Anders Nygren <txmanyg@txm.ericsson.se> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V15 #38 >Date: tor 10 feb 2000 17.33 > Javier Perez wrote: >> >> Ok >> Seeing as Lugers and Volvos are on topic enough for LUG >> I've got a question. Years ago while in a military museum >> in Indonesia I asked the curator's assistant if I could play with the guns. >> To my shocking surprise he said sure! Well, I worked BARS Sterlings >> Thomsons Parabellums, Oddball looking colt autos that I've never seen >> anywhere again and lots of other wonderful pieces. Among them was a >> Chekoslovakian Husquavera if that's how you spell it. Anyway This thing >> looked just like a P38. Until this day I can't figure out if it was a licensed >> or unliscensed copy or something that just looked like a P38. Would anybody know? >> Thanks in advance >> > > Are You sure that it wasn't a swedish Husqvarna? I have no idea what a > P38 is > but from the context I quess that it is a handgun and I seem to remember > that > the standard issue pistols for the swedish army was Husquarna. > > /Anders Nygren > It was most certainly the Swedish Army´s Husqvarna M40. This was a copy of the Finnish Army´s 9mm Lahti, a slightly improved version of the Walther P-38. In the Swedish army we simply referred to the M40 as "The Parabellum". And it remained our standard issue side arm well into the Seventies. Claes