„Verschlussabstützung dutch Stufe“ sounds a bit like a tongue twister whilst „Falz“ just doesn't seem to go far enough¿
>>You should read Peter Ravn Lund's book "Christoph Funk - Gewehrfabrik Suhl"(available from the GGCA bookstore), pages 28 - 29. Thieme & Schlegelmilch was not simply "absorbed" by Chr.Funk, the story is a bit more complicated. It is important to add Chr. to the Funk name, as there were no less than 38 Funks active at one time or another in the Suhl and Zella-Mehlis area. The Chr. Funk company in 1934 was owned by Ernst Funk. Ernst's oldest son, Alfred Christoph Funk bought Thieme & Schlegelmilch on February 1, 1934, but ran it as a separate business. In 1937 A.C.F. moved the T&S shop to his father's factory premises at Gothaer Strasse 18. From then on both "Chr.Funk" and "Nimrod" guns were made by the same men in the same factory to the same designs, but were signed and sold by by two financially independent companies until 1945. So it was a cooperative of two companies sharing a factory. BTW, Rob's "Nimrod" drilling is essentially a Chr.Funk "Jubiläumsdrilling 1835 -1935, Modell II", featuring a light action body made from high strength steel, Blitz-/trigger plate locks and Funk's tumbler-locking safety.<<
I meant to tell Axel E. that I couldn't read and it is that which fosters my ignorance.....
Anyway his info from Lund's text goes a long, long way in explaining why Chr. Funk is purported to have made all but one of the Vom Hofe chambered rifles.
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