In addition a bolt operated 22 rifle is made in two models, one for plinking and the other with a heavy barrel, heavy stock, and micrometer sight for target shooting. The finish of these rifles was not bad, but the design was again not very attractive - small tapered bolt handle, inadequate safety but the hard enough to are also eould press trigger (I put it on safe release the firing dimensioning for Sears pin.) At present theyare dimensioning the old "Drilling" which will be offered next year in 16 gauge with the rifle barrel for the & X 57 cartridge. They Roebuck a 22 semi automatic me as similar to the Ruger. target pistol which wasdescribed to They would not show me this pistol, but from a brief glance which I obtained ing room before it was hastily put away, copying an American Ruger which had been The the barrels were rifled by Hanmerli Germans are forbidden injunction will be automatically contract peace Capacity - is to produce of it in the dimensionI would guess they were sent them by Sears. in Switzerland a rifled lifted when This the German West ratified. They are now producing about 1200 guns of this production consists of their double barrel month this production is scheduled to rise to 1500 barrel making department works three shifts around rest of the Markets = because barrel. plant is working two So far in their short a month. shifts. life 80% shotgun. Next per month. The the clocks the | their production has been directed entirely to the German market but Bohmmuller declared that they know that German demand alone will not suffice very long to keep them going. They have only recently begun looking for export markets3 and for agents to handle them. Finances = The original backers raised about 1 million marks to restore the building and to start the company off. They soon ran short, however, and for a time were very hard put, but they enlisted the support of a group of Ruhr industrialists around Essen and they have invested According respect. needed. to He about 3 1/2 million marks more Bohmmller they are now fairly implied that their backers can in the company. confortable in this raise more capital if Management The director of the firm is Dr. Fritz Bohmmuller, a pre war German diplomat, a former Luftwaffe officer, and after the war a lawyer in Hamburg. He also handles the commercial department. The chief engineer is a Herr Spiegleberg formerly chief engineer of the German machine gun factory at Lubeck. As far as I could learn these men constitute the management timate that both men are in their forties. experience with the manufacture of sporting of the firm; Neither arms. had I would any es-— prior