Raimey, Fab500 read our line and posted a "Robust" barrel (which came out in 1913) with chambers in cm. This challenged the thesis that the change to measuring chambers from cm back to mm in Saint Etienne was summer 1912 as postulated. He believed it was later possibly 1913+

I posted
-- the "Gallia" barrels which had chambers in cm..certainly made (or stamped) after the name was trademarked in 11 June 1912.
-- And a Didier Drevet barrel dated 1912 with chambers in mm.
Which indicates the change-over was indeed in 1912 sometime after June of that year.

But how to explain that "Robust" barrel? First..it looks odd...it has the French comma for a decimal point - all the other guns chambered in cm from 1889 - 1912 use a simple decimal point. So I don't take that as definitive. What I hope is that FAB500 will post some of this on some of the French sites and we'll get a flood of information.

Last edited by Argo44; 04/12/21 09:51 PM.
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