I wish you all would quit calling the Fox Model B a gussied up 311. There was no such thing as a Stevens 311 when the Fox Model B was introduced.

Both Savage Arms Corp. and its subsidiary J. Stevens Arms Co. began introducing several new guns in 1936. J. Stevens Arms Co. replaced their Stevens No. 330 and their Springfield No. 315, both of which used the G.S. Lewis Patent No. 1,136,247 action with its coil spring driven strikers, with the Stevens No. 530 and the Springfield No. 515. The No. 530 and No. 515 used a new action with internal hammers which rotated about an axle. They also introduced a Skeet Gun version --



These new actions were marked 5000 and 5100, the difference being in the top-lever and spindle. It appears the 5000 used up old top-levers and spindles from the G.S. Lewis action. Their cheaper double, the Springfield No. 311 (and many "trade brand" guns)continued to be made on the G.S. Lewis action.

The next year Savage Arms Corp. introduced their Model 220 hammerless single barrel, a Model 320 hammerless double barrel, and the Model 420/430 over-under. Anyone ever seen or have pictures of a Model 320??



Evidently the Model 320 wasn't the answer for a lower priced double for Savage to make at Utica along with the Ansley H. Fox line.

In 1940, J. Stevens Arms Co. introduced the Tenite stocked version of the No. 530 and called it the No. 530 M --



Meanwhile up at Utica, Savage added the Model B to their Ansley H. Fox offerings. It was the internal parts of the Stevens No. 530 put in a bit more nicely profiled receiver with some acid etching and a bit nicer wood than the No. 530.

Jump forward to Savage emerging from WW-II. They decided to consolidate their arms making operations at their J. Stevens factories at Chicopee Falls, Mass. while the factory at Utica went to making washing machines for the post-war housing boom. In the 1947 Savage/Stevens/Springfield/Fox catalogue the gun which had been called the Stevens No. 530 M before the war was now the Springfield No. 311 --



By the 1948 Savage/Stevens/Fox catalogue the Tenite stocked double gun was the Stevens Model 311 --



By 1951 the Tenite stocks were gone and the Stevens Model 311 got a wood stock. So, if anything, the Stevens No. 311 is a gussied down Stevens Model 530.