Ain't She Pretty?

[pjk9hp]

I posted same photo of her in highpowercollectors.proboards.com/thread/205/high-powers-produced-used-war?page=2 with the caption:
"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." - www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/28924504 
Another source has this:
"This lass was actually not an Inglis employee ..... rather, she worked for the Canadian Crown Corporation "Small Arms Ltd." at their Long Branch facility (where No. 4 Lee-Enfield rifles and such were produced.) The Inglis factory lacked woodworking capability, so they subcontracted production of the wooden holster/stocks for the No. 1 pistols to Long Branch." - forums.1911forum.com/showpost.php?p=4615326&postcount=18
I iddn't pay much attentioon to the caption as I thought she was test-firing the gun while checking the wooden holster. Then I saw the photo again showing clearly the markings at the right side of the attached Hi-Power unit including the sear lever retainer not in-placed.
- www.tactical-life.com/firearms/handguns/inglis-hi-power-pistols/
- cdn.athlonoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/07/Inglis-Hi-Power-9.jpg


The markings on the right side indicate "WOODSHOP" above the thumbprint and "INSPECTION" near the muzzle end. The member who posted it said, "It's a welded blank used in the Long Branch Woodshop..."
www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=33979&p=207005&viewfull=1#post207005 

left side

left side (Chinese character)


Cool piece of history.

[CXM]

The girl is pretty good looking too...

You sure come up with some interesting photos...

Thanks for sharing...

V/r

Chuck

Jul 23, 2018 3:01:51 GMT -5 pjk9hp said:

I posted same photo of her in highpowercollectors.proboards.com/thread/205/high-powers-produced-used-war?page=2 with the caption:
"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." - www.pbase.com/mrclark/image/28924504 
Another source has this:
"This lass was actually not an Inglis employee ..... rather, she worked for the Canadian Crown Corporation "Small Arms Ltd." at their Long Branch facility (where No. 4 Lee-Enfield rifles and such were produced.) The Inglis factory lacked woodworking capability, so they subcontracted production of the wooden holster/stocks for the No. 1 pistols to Long Branch." - forums.1911forum.com/showpost.php?p=4615326&postcount=18
I iddn't pay much attentioon to the caption as I thought she was test-firing the gun while checking the wooden holster. Then I saw the photo again showing clearly the markings at the right side of the attached Hi-Power unit including the sear lever retainer not in-placed.
- www.tactical-life.com/firearms/handguns/inglis-hi-power-pistols/
- cdn.athlonoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2018/07/Inglis-Hi-Power-9.jpg


The markings on the right side indicate "WOODSHOP" above the thumbprint and "INSPECTION" near the muzzle end. The member who posted it said, "It's a welded blank used in the Long Branch Woodshop..."
www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=33979&p=207005&viewfull=1#post207005 

left side

left side (Chinese character)


Cool piece of history.

[gt40doc]

That was both interesting and educational.....thanx for sharing.

[abninftr]

That is Veronica, "Ronnie", Foster, AKA "the Bren Gun Girl". She appeared in numerous articles and posters championing Inglis' wartime productions. Link to another website's thread: www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=17891

[pjk9hp]

Jul 23, 2018 14:59:19 GMT -5 abninftr said:

That is Veronica, "Ronnie", Foster, AKA "the Bren Gun Girl". She appeared in numerous articles and posters championing Inglis' wartime productions. Link to another website's thread: www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=17891

I see different ladies. Photo below shows their head profile. Bren girl's head is convexing than the Hipower girl. The Hipower girl's nose is pointed forward while the Bren girl's nose is slightly pointing upward.

[pjk9hp]

This forum site member (last comment) identified the two ladies separately.
wethearmed.com/general-firearms-discussion/life-magazines-women-and-their-guns/

[abninftr]

You are right. I stand corrected.

[Mister Coffee]

Pretty awesome historical data here, gentlemen. The photo and the info on the woman are impressive, but to have a picture of the "blank" gun that is in the picture is amazing.

Very cool.

[CXM]

It does make you wonder why Inglis would go to all the trouble of making a dummy gun... it seems that would be a lot more trouble than just using a production gun... curious.

V/r

Chuck

[abninftr]

I suspect the dummy guns were made up from out of Spec. parts. Again, that is just a suspicion.

[CXM]

I note there are serial numbers on the 'gun' that don't match... which suggests to me you may be right in your surmise...

V/r

Chuck

Oct 9, 2019 19:55:42 GMT -5 abninftr said:

I suspect the dummy guns were made up from out of Spec. parts. Again, that is just a suspicion.

[ibmikey]

 Neat pistol, I had a Chinese contract pistol 3CH 1234 that I let a female talk me out of so she could give it to hubby for Christmas...sure miss that pistol. I now have a fixed sight pistol (lower left)  that remains in excellent condition and is deadly accurate, nice but not the same as a tangent.