types) was referred to as the Government Model. 45 caliber specimen which (as well as later. This very specific designation was used to distinguish it from the. Savage was introduced in August 1907, with the official nomenclature Savage Automatic Pistol, Pocket Model, Caliber. Judging from the time that elapsed before production began it is surmised that several prototype specimens were probably made before a final one was accepted. blowback type pistol, and they started tooling up for production in the winter of 1906. It was found not to be acceptable for military use.īy mid-1906 the firm had decided to resume planning for a. blowback pistol had been completed by December 1906, and this weapon (which was quite different from subsequent pistols of this caliber) was submitted to the Springfield Armory.
versions of both the blowback and the recoil-operated types.
#Savage 1917 380 pistol trial
Ordnance Department invited manufacturers to submit automatic pistols for trial at the Springfield Armory in 1907 they began constructing. 32 caliber version of the blowback pistol only, but when the U.S. It was the original intention of the Savage Co. At this time Condit dropped out of the picture and Searle represented their interests at the Savage plant. Patent Office on November 21, 1905, and at the end of that year both designs had been licensed for manufacture by the Savage Arms Co. By 1905 two distinctly different models had been produced in prototype form: (1) a fixed-barrel, retarded-blowback design and (2) a moving-īarrel, recoil-operated design. Searle with whom further improvements were jointly made. Later in that year Condit joined with Elbert H. The first development and prototype manufacture appear to have taken place in the first months of 1904. Y., seems to have been the work of William Condit.
The original design for the automatic pistol which later became known as the Savage, since its production was taken up by the Savage Arms Co.
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