High Powers Produced & Used During The War

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Inglis production in Canada...(continued)

www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/28924504
"Female worker Madeline Solotwinski checks the wooden holster/emergency butt on a Chinese pistol, converting it into a sub-machine gun; Small Arms Ltd. plant."
"Actually not an Inglis employee, she worked for the Canadian Crown Corporation Small Arms Ltd. at their Long Branch facility where No. 4 Lee-Enfield rifles & such were produced"

forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.php?225169-Bond%B4s-Luger/page2
“Inglis license produced Browning Hi-Powers for the British airborne troops and Chinese during WW2 (as well as the Canadians), Later models weren't cut for the shoulder stock. The Inglis HPs remained in the inventory for a long, long time. About 1995, they unloaded a few thousand on the American market. Stocks were a lot harder to come by...”

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Inglis production in Canada...(continued)

www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/58303175
www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/world-firearms/309000d1329659756-inglis-mk-i-hi-power-rig-ingpist2.jpg
“The round labels on the grips of the guns are decals required by the Mutual Aid Board and appeared on Canadian-made war materiel bound for Allies' use. These High Powers were being produced for a Chinese aid contract.”

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Inglis production in Canada...(continued)

www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/99404788
“Male and female workers preparing high powers”

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Inglis production in Canada...(continued)

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“Inglis Browning High Power's”
“Manufactured in Building 20. (9 Hanna Avenue.) Regards, J T (J T CUNNINGHAM 22-Jun-2011 05:59)”

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Inglis production in Canada...(continued)

forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?372801-Another-Inglis-quot-What-s-it-worth-quot
10-06-2014, 01:19 AM post #9 by GrantRCanada
“This photo of an Inglis factory worker engraving the serial numbers on a finished pistol (using a large pantograph-type engraving machine) is one of many such wartime production photographs published in Clive Law's excellent "Inglis Diamond: The Canadian High Power Pistol". Her right hand is guiding a stylus in a series of engraved number plates, which transfers to the engraver cutting head in contact with the pistol. If this were my pistol (1T6754) being engraved, once it was completely serial numbered, she would change the final digit guide plate (i.e. from '4' to '5') and then number the next pistol .... and so on .... “

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forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?10579-Inglis-Hi-Power-Finish-Question
11-05-2007, 09:32 PM post #6 by GrantRCanada
“…This photo shows Infantrymen of the Koninklijke Landmacht (Royal Netherlands Army) engaged in an urban combat exercise in 1948. In addition to the Canadian helmets, battledress and web gear, note the Long Branch No. 4 Lee-Enfield and STEN, and the Inglis No. 2 pistol!”

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worap.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/classic-handguns-the-browning-hi-power/

"A soldier of the Parachute Regiment holding an L9A1 around 1960"

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".. fn_1948 ..."  (an Israeli combatant?)

(also appearing in forum.guns.ru/forummessage/85/240819-459.html )

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www.ar15.com/forums/t_5_39/127525_Wanna_see_a_Hi_Power_andamp_quot_War_Trophyandamp_quot__from_the_Vietnam_conflict__Come_Inside_.html
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Tunnel Rats in Vietnam

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rhodesian_Army_recruitment_Bush_War_1976.png

“National servicewoman takes aim with her Browning Hi-Power 9mm semi-automatic; from a 1976 army recruitment poster”

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forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=181698
09-17-2007, 12:18 AM post #1 by capp325
“Hi-Powers in Afghanistan… Found these pictures on another forum. Thought some of you might be interested in seeing them. Those are Canadian soldiers. Interestingly, some are carrying cocked and locked (fourth pic), while others with the hammer down (third last).”

forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?166339-Need-photos-of-soldiers-armed-with-Hi-Power-Glock-amp-Beretta-pistols
04-06-2010, 05:42 PM post #6 by GrantRCanada
“Canadians in Afghanistan - each one of them armed with a venerable Inglis High Power made in 1944 or 1945. Still Canada's primary-issue military handgun!”

also from forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=417111

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"Prince Harry in Afghanistan with a US hat and a browning hi power on his armor."

“Prince Harry in Afghanistan with a standard British-issue L9A1 Browning High Power pistol as his personal sidearm (a standard British-issue pistol since World War II).”

mrlapel.blogspot.com/2012/11/firearms-browning-hi-power-via-feg.html
"Prince Harry was recently seen wearing a well-worn and beat-up Hi-Power in a war zone in the Middle East, a tribute to its longevity and ruggedness."

www.ingunowners.com/forums/handguns/355723-glock-17-replaced-browning-hi-power-old-news-but-hmmm.html
Three photos of the prince showing him carrying the High Power on his chest rig.

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I might forget....the decals used on Inglis Hipowers:

forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?p=1713267
www.lowe.ca/Rick/Firearms/Images/HiPowerGraphics/InglisDecal.JPG
01-26-2008, 11:48 AM post #32 by Jäger

forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3310599
Feb 3, 2005 post by DrakeriderCa

www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/world-firearms/309001d1329659757-inglis-mk-i-hi-power-rig-ingdec02.jpg

www.warrelics.eu/forum/attachments/world-firearms/309002d1329659833-inglis-mk-i-hi-power-rig-kgrhqrhjcge7zcjjrqjbo-gugy7kg-60_12.jpg

www.combat-relics.com/the-john-inglis-hi-power
Note: First time to see a glimpse of the bluperints (used as background) of Inglis HP (top photo). Anybody here knows where we could view the HP blueprints (not the orig JMB patent)?

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You certainly have some interesting stuff there...

One of the photos of the trooper with the MG appeared in "Life's Pictorial History of WWII" that was first published in 1953. I recall wondering back then who the trooper was and what might have happened to him...

Interesting stuff...

V/r


Chuck

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Interesting to note HRH Harry is wearing a cap with a U.S. Flag...

V/r

Chuck

Jun 27, 2017 23:55:45 GMT -5 pjk9hp said:

"Prince Harry in Afghanistan with a US hat and a browning hi power on his armor."

“Prince Harry in Afghanistan with a standard British-issue L9A1 Browning High Power pistol as his personal sidearm (a standard British-issue pistol since World War II).”

mrlapel.blogspot.com/2012/11/firearms-browning-hi-power-via-feg.html
"Prince Harry was recently seen wearing a well-worn and beat-up Hi-Power in a war zone in the Middle East, a tribute to its longevity and ruggedness."

www.ingunowners.com/forums/handguns/355723-glock-17-replaced-browning-hi-power-old-news-but-hmmm.html
Three photos of the prince showing him carrying the High Power on his chest rig.