| Title |
Browning Arms Company Collection, Box 008, Folder 09 |
| Creator |
Browning, Val A., 1895-1994; Laloux, Rene; Browning, John Val; FN (Firm : Belgium); Smith, Walter H. B.; Joassart, Gustave; Murphy, Robert; Ford, E. L.; Fédération des industries belges; Perry, Emmett; Browning, Marriner Bigelow; Browning Arms Company |
| Contributors |
Browning, Val A., 1895-1994 |
| Description |
Exchanges, primarily between the Brownings and Fabrique Nationale, including a significant amount regarding American trials of F. N.'s F. A. L. (Fusil Automatique Leger) battle rifle. Also includes documentation of the same. |
| Subject |
Fabrique Nationale automatic rifles; Firearms industry and trade--United States; Firearms industry and trade--Utah; Browning Arms Company; Business enterprises--Utah--Ogden--History |
| Digital Publisher |
Digitized by Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Date Digital |
2026-04 |
| Date |
1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946; 1947; 1948; 1949; 1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954 |
| Medium |
correspondence; documents; financial records; memorandums; postcards; publications |
| Spatial Coverage |
Herstal, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium; Washington, D.C., United States; Arlington County, Virginia, United States; Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia, United States; New York City, New York, United States; Ogden, Weber County, Utah, United States; Brussels, Belgium; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; London, England, United Kingdom; Lisboa, Estremadura, Portugal |
| Type |
Text; Image/StillImage |
| Conversion Specifications |
Archived TIFF images were scanned with an Epson Expression 13000XL scanner. Digital images were reformatted in Photoshop. |
| Language |
eng; fra; por |
| Rights |
Materials may be used for non-profit and educational purposes; please credit Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. For further information:  |
| Sponsorship/Funding |
Funding generously provided by the Val A. Browning Charitable Foundation. |
| Source |
Browning Arms Company Collection, MS492, Box 8, Folder 9, Special Collections & University Archives, Stewart Library, Weber State University. |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s611vxxy |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
179371 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s611vxxy |
| Title |
Page 58 |
| OCR Text |
Show We confirm to you a) b) as follows what we have told you verbally: to install the manufacture We are going to exert ourselves by all means such a manner to reduce to of the parts of the Five-shot Automatics in of these Auto-Five-shotse 60 % the time necessary to produce the parts ction of the Auto-Five shots The sections of machines engaged in the produ of sporting automatic shotwill be strictly reserved to the production a part of the pieces of the guns and will undertake the manufacture of s for the Auto-Five-shots have Auto-Two~shot as soon as the factory erder r, we will We foresee that in proceeding in this manne been exhausted. from one installation to be able, in spite of delays and changing number of parts for the another, to machine in 1952 a considerable eries of this gun in commercial Auto~Twoeshot in such a manner that deliv quantities could take place during 1953. nts will study the realization of this At your request the manufacturing departme it in a much deeper fashion upon the program, and we will be able to go into dent, Mr. Val A. Browning. occasion of the next visit of your Presi ing out this gun of which we have all Please believe us that this delay in gett as deeply as it does you, but obliged thought for such a long time effects us by the Belgian government to defer the as we are on account of priority oxders elves with the reasoning that it would production of this gun, we console ours gun on the American market at a moment be scarcely diplomatic to announce @ new to be censecrating all of their actual when the European countries are supposed activity to the defense program. insofar as the Auto-Five-shots are Tf you agree to the preceding» particularly be obliged if you will personally hand concerned and the Superposeds, we would have no interruption in our efforts, which us your orders so that there will be con in ny; Compa er more arms to your been going on for the past year to deliv which has been realized, we hope that on sidering the diagrams of the producti of that this year these efforts, in spite you will conclude, aS we have done, certain success. everything, have been crowned with a Yours very truly, FABRIQUE Chef Adjoint de service a la Direction NATIONALE Societe D'ARMES DE GUERRE Anoryme. IMrecteur General |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
wsu_ba |
| ID |
179429 |
| Reference URL |
https://digital.weber.edu/ark:/87278/s611vxxy/179429 |