While evacuating personnel from Instytut Techniki Uzbrojenia (Weaponry Technology Institute) the train they were traveling in was attacked near the city of Zdołbunow by two German warplanes flying at low altitude. There is only one example of military usage of this rifle, which is known from its constructor’s memories. The known serial numbers are: 1017, 1019, 1027, 1030, 1040, 1048, 1054 (the Russian museum and the Ohio collection rifles serial numbers are unknown). Some time ago, there were rumors of wz.38M being on display at the Museum of War, Beijing, China (unconfirmed). Central Armed Forces Museum, Moscow, Russia 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Polish Army Museum, Warsaw, Poland, deactivated 2. There are only nine known examples of wz.38 M rifles in collections around the world (1. Today, this is probably the most difficult to find military rifle on the collector market. Bayonet lug for a standard Polish issue bayonet wz.29. Mauser-style tangent leaf rear sight graduated from 300 to 2000 meter. The safety lever is located on the right side of the receiver, just above the trigger. Ten round non-detachable magazine loaded from Mauser clips. The rifle is gas operated with the gas tube located under the barrel. This is perhaps the only indication that Maroszek rifles were reissued to Nazi forces. Józef Maroszek stated that he had seen a group of German soldiers armed with wz.38M rifles in occupied Warsaw. However, it is unclear if any rifles of this pattern left the Radom factory before a German invasion (all the surviving examples display "Zbr.2" markings). The decision was made to begin a serial production of the rifle at the Fabryka Broni (the Arms Factory) in Radom in 1938. The highest serial number observed is 1054 (it is assumed that the numbering started from "1001", not counting the prototypes and pre-production series). The barrels were supplied by the Panstwowa Fabryka Karabinow (the State Rifle Factory) in Warsaw. The wz.38M rifles were manufactured by the Zbrojownia Nr. The production was not resumed under the German occupation. It is believed that only about 150 rifles of this pattern were manufactured before the German invasion of Poland. After a Polish army order was received, a small scale production began in 1938. Several prototypes and pre-production samples of his rifle were manufactured from 1936 to 1938. Józef Maroszek was one of the three winners of Poland’s 1934 self-loading rifle trials. He was known mainly as a designer of Polish anti-tank rifle wz.1935 "Ur". The rifle was designed by a Polish engineer Józef Maroszek.
0 kommentar(er)
