Automatic pistol Models 1935S

The automatic pistol Modèle 1935 S (for Saint-Etienne) was lawful in the French Army of 1940 to 1962, jointly with the Automatic pistol Models 1935A. It was replaced by the FARMHOUSES 50.

Presentation

Mechanical model of the FARMHOUSE 1950, it draws in simple action and its turntable is removable. Adopted in 1937 pennies name with automatic pistol of 7,65 mm long model 1935 arms S, its production began in a limited way and to the day of the armistice in June 1940 only 1404 specimens had been delivered by the Munitions factory of Saint-Etienne. With the Release Pa 35S took again service within the French Army but because of its ammunition with the limited number and stopping power great of foreign weapons in service, it did not make any more the weight. The production continued however and the largest part of the produced weapons was it after the war. Taken by other contracts and not being able to absorb this surplus of work, the FARMHOUSE sub-contracted the manufacture of 10.000 weapons to the Manufrance in 1945. This contract ended after the delivery of 9288 weapons. MAC took again manufacture gradually and made modifications whose principal one was the radical change of the lever of safety, the weapons carrying this new lever being consequently called Pa 35SM1. The weapon was also in service in the national police, the CRS and the Police headquarter of Paris. He suffered only from one weak ammunition and a lever of safety badly placed.

Numerical data

Ammunition: 7,65mm Long
Length: 18,9 cm
Canon: 10,6 cm
Empty weight: 720 G
Charger: 8 cartridges

Bonds

The http://armesfrancaises.free.fr site treats Pa models 1935S on this page: http://armesfrancaises.free.fr/les%20armes%20de%20poing.html and of the majority of the French lawful weapons

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