No, my thoughts are that the A&D Body Action was tied up for a time with ponying up for the APUN. So Sauer, etal did not want to pony up the funds and exhausted all other avenues to find a platform with which to hitch their gunmaking efforts. I think Sauer had about abandoned the transitional(inverted L configuration) lock and for a song Daly found a niche market to peddle it. I'll have to look at my examples, but as best I can recall, all transitional(inverted L configuration) examples have solely Sauer process marks. I do not believe that any of the Manhattan's passed under the quality control eye of H.A. Lindner
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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