doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com New-to-me French double:

Gene, my 1922 V-C catalog (the one with the great ad featuring French WWI ace of aces Rene Fonck) doesn't list "Helistop" as one of their trademarks. "Helice Grip" is repeated many times throughout the catalog, never with the extra p. "VerCar" and "Colonial" were also listed as tradmarks.

The first V-C I ever owned was Helice 33 No. 3. That's a fancier version of the Helice 33 introduced by V-C in 1933. They were apparently the first V-C guns to use coil springs vs flat springs.