Also, during an Arsenal re-fit, M1s produced by other manufacturers could be fitted to M1A1s. SERIAL NUMBER RANGE The first was produced and delivered from late 1942 through until October 1943. During World War II the U S army assigned serial number blocks to the many makers of the M-1 carbine.Your serial number range 4,080,000-4,432,099 was assigned to the company National Postal Meter.These serial numbers were given a date of december 1943,to May 1944.Therfore your M-1 carbine was made by National Postal Meter between 12-1943,and 05.ģ,250,020-3,651,519 We would like to encourage you to. If I was to rank them according to value from most valuable and rare to most common and least expensive, this is how I would rank them. Obviously a completely original early Inland is going to be worth more than an imported Winchester or a mix-master Rock-Ola. When getting into the upper reaches of carbine collecting, you better know your stuff because there are lots of fakes. I would be very cautious about buying a 3k "original" carbine. There are so many variables in collecting carbines that you would really need to study the manufactures and what parts they produced and what other contractors they used. Winchester M1 Carbine Lookup Serial Numbers Were Given WINCHESTER M1 CARBINE LOOKUP SERIAL NUMBERS WERE GIVEN Note: THIS IS FOR USGI CARBINES ONLY AND NOT YOUR COMMERCIAL MADE MODEL.Winchester M1 Carbine Serial Number Lookup By georasuste1977 Follow | Public
That way there was a contiguous series of unique serial numbers that went across company bounds. SERIAL NUMBERS - The War Department would issue a contract to a manufacturer, and then assign them starting serial numbers to them. In the case of some receivers, they would be shipped from a manufacturer and then the name would be "struck through" with a line and the name of the second manufacturer stamped in. "' STRIKE-THROUGH' RECEIVERS- It was not uncommon for M-1 Carbine manufacturers to produce parts for another manufacturer. These are highly prized by some carbine aficionados."Ĭompany.
***Note that some Quality Hardware carbines were assembled using receivers made by Union Switch & Signal Co, hence the “UN-QUALITY” marked carbines. A very few late receivers are marked “CCC”, for Commecial Controls Corp. **Note that a few early NPM receivers are marked “Rochester”, for the Rochester Defence Corp. The Grand Rapids facility assumed a contract that had been originally awarded to Irwin-Pedersen Arms Co….I-P had assembled only 3,542 guns at the time, none of which were accepted by the government. * Note that Saginaw had two plants in operation, one in Saginaw, MI and one in Grand Rapids, MI. International Business Machines Corp (IBM). Some quoted info from the site listed above. ******** Great site for post war rebuilds: ******** A lot of good information can be found here:
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