Good article Gene.
As a school boy in the late 50’s we had a school organised visit to a local gun collector (those were the days).
He demonstrated a silenced .22 auto pistol in his small back yard by emptying a magazine skywards. He seems to have assumed that this was safe in the middle of a town of 70,000 people.
From my visual memory I am fairly certain it was a Hi-Standard.
The example at Holts is a Model B, and the marking “Property of United States” shows it was supplied to the UK under Lend-Lease possibly before Pearl Harbour.
I have recently seen a very well engineered Parker-Hale adapter made to clamp on to the barrel and foresight of a Colt Woodsman to provide a threaded muzzle adaptor for their sound moderator. I was told that the adapters were produced at the request of Special Operations Executive.
Last edited by Parabola; 11/23/22 05:21 AM.