MEMORANDUM - PHONE CONVERSATION JAMES TUBSDAY, MAY 2, 1944: Information 1. to be obtained Mr. Hume would like to application is ready to send it on. Mr. May 2, P. HUME from 1944 Mr. Val A. Browning: know if the recent patent for him? Mr. Browning was Hume would like a list prepared comparable to that furnished by Colts, showing the patents which are now being usec in the guns manufactured for In other words, a the United States Government. list covering Browning patents prepared to go along with Colt's list, in the same form. This list should be prepared regardless of whether or not the Browning patents are expired or unexpired. He would elso like us to check and send on to him copy of November 22, 1917 contract, as the 1931 contract states that there are two, not one. Another ment thing from Mr. which Hume Mr. would like is state- a information giving Browning as to whether or not the guns which are now being manufactured for the United States Government are basically those which were developed by Brownings If the Government has been put to a and Colt's. great deal of expense to refine and change these guns the picture may be somewhat different than over a it would be if Brownings and Colt's, period of time, have improved these guns to state Viewed of perfection from this angle, which they a cost long the now have. — of $6,000,000.00 would be extremely low. As an example, it probably many great a Government States cost the United refine, with, experiment to millions of dollars improve and change ordinary automobiles and trucks Mr. Hume's associates think to operate as tanks. that the six million dollars which we show as total royalties received is an extremely low development and improvement cost if, as previously stated, the guns now being used are basically Browning-Colt inventions with subsequent improvements. |