Inland Manufacturing Division M1 Carbine Serial Numbers
Inland Division of General Motors -Main Manufacture & Identification Codes: 'I' 'IN' -Main Plant Location: Dayton, Ohio. -Average Cost to Government per completed rifle, $37.75. -Approximately 2,632,097 total Carbines were made by Inland: About 43% of all M1 Carbines made. ---M1 Carbines: 2,428,486 86.91% ---M2 Carbines: 202,800 7.73% (Only Inland and Winchester Manufactured these) ---T2 Carbines, Unknown.
The Collecting the M1A1 carbine by RJ Militaria: Owing to the scarcity of original M1A1 carbines, here are a few essential things for collectors to look out for.
Almost too cool to be true Dayton, OH, October 2014–MKS Supply, LLC announces that production of the original Inland brand M1 Carbine is again underway and the iconic.30 caliber, World War II-era M1 Carbine will be marketed exclusively by MKS Supply, LLC. These newly manufactured M1 Carbines are 100 percent American-made with 100 percent American parts. These are faithful copies of the original Inland Manufacturing carbines, right down to part construction and stampings. They even include the arsenal-stamped stock markings known as cartouches! In fact, these carbines are so precisely copied from the original specifications that the company marks the underside of the barrel and the inside of the stock of these current models to prevent potential fraudsters from passing these new carbines as mint WWII originals, or using these new-production parts to “upgrade” original models (these markings are not visible unless the action is removed from the stock). Three Inland M1 Carbine models are just now available: M1 1944 Wood stocked original design without bayonet lug.MSRP $1049.00 M1 1945 wood stocked original (above) design with bayonet lugMSRP $1049.00 M1A1Paratrooper.
Original design folding heavy wire stock.MSRP $1179.00 • All carbines include an original-looking cloth sling and oiler. • The 1945 and Paratrooper models come with one 15-round magazine. • The original 1944 Model did not have a bayonet lug, so MKS chose the new Inland 1944 model to come with a 10-round magazine in order to comply with the law in states that limit magazine capacity to ten rounds and prohibit the sale of firearms with bayonet lugs (to prevent millions of “drive-by bayonetings” we assume). One magazine is included with each carbine. Extra 15- and 30-round magazines are not available with this offering, but all models will accept original and correct replica 15-and 30-round magazines. All models feature the same original-type adjustable 1944-era “peep” battle sights.
A total of 150,000 Paratrooper models were produced in WWII by all manufacturers. The Inland M1A1 Paratrooper is modeled after the late-1944 production model, which had a low wood walnut forend, Type II barrel band, folding wire stock, and no bayonet lug. The M1 Carbine is a great little firearm. It has cool, classic looks, is fun to shoot and packs a low-recoil even as the 110-grain.30 caliber bullet is pushed at nearly 2,000 FPS. Quick history. Of the 6,232,100 M1Carbines produced overall, almost half were produced by the Inland Division of General Motors between 1941 and 1945. During that time, Inland produced three basic models: The 1944 model without a bayonet lug; the 1945 model with a bayonet lug (probably at the urging of the troops); and a wire stock Paratrooper model that also had no bayonet lug.
Also produced by various manufacturers were an additional 570,000 select-fire M2 Carbines and 2,100 M3 Carbines (with flash hider and without sights to allow space for the addition of an infrared sniper scope). The long-lived M1 Carbine was used into the early 1960s by U.S Special Forces advisers in Vietnam and by indigenous troops throughout the war due to its compact size and light weight (5lbs, 3oz). It is still used around the world by various military and police units. It’s difficult not to get too excited at this news. I’ve wanted an M1 Carbine since before I can remember, and for new production rifles these are very reasonably priced!
Inland’s original T21 sight prototypes didn’t quite line up with the existing front sight when mounted on a standard receiver. Army Ordnance was in a hurry to test the new sight, so they authorized Inland to fabricate a few receivers with an appropriate dovetail cut, resulting in the M1E2 variant.
Kf V1020 To V1021 Update Chrome. After favorable tests, this configuration was then approved for standardization as the M1A2. However, the M1A2 was obsoleted as soon as Inland redimensioned the T21 sight so it could be retrofitted to existing carbine receivers. We don’t pull magazines or swap magazines because we lose money on the pulled magazine.
If I pull a magazine from your package and replace it with a brand new 10 round magazine I now have to convince a customer that the 15 round magazine I pulled, which does not have any packaging, is in fact brand new and not used. Now we can do this with AR style rifles because they almost always ship with MagPul PMAGS sealed in their packaging, so my shop has no issues with swapping AR mags for our CA customers.
Sorry, that was meant to be sarcastic. Lance has been around here for as long as I can remember.
He’s well known for spouting opinions that are well, let’s call them “unfounded”. He slowly devolved to the point that he was basically just writing gibberish, then disappeared, and eventually came back writing complete sentences again. Back when Disqus still had useful downvotes, I could usually spot a Lance comment because his ‘downs’ outnumbered his ‘ups’. I try to ignore him, and I suspect that many others do as well. Originals work fine if they are in reasonable condition and maintained. I now have my father’s Inland carbine and it shoots great (though I don’t plan to dump hundreds of rounds a week through it). The cartridge is a great choice for smaller statured shooters.
Very little flash or blast compared to 5.56 which makes it a good home defense gun with good ammo (Gold Dot, Hornady CD, or DPX). A 100 or 110 gr bullet at about 2000 fps is nothing to sneeze.
As a side note, I ordered some of the Kahr/AO mags from Brownell’s. Bdcraft Cubik Pro Скачать. None of them would even fit into the mag well of my Inland!
Need to stick with original USGI mags at least with originals.