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So I'm guessing no one here really knows exactly how many angels can actually dance on the head of a pin then? |
Depends on your religion,
could be 14 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,346

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So I'm guessing no one here really knows exactly how many angels can actually dance on the head of a pin then? |
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I submit that even today $385,000 is a lot of money; imagine what it represented in 1949. I think is ridiculous to think Kilgore paid that type of money for a few crates of parts and old machinery? Given the money involved, I submit the legal department of one of these parties drafted a contract of sale. I expect it was a very simple contract assigning all rights to the Thompson Submachine Gun from McGuire Industries to Kilgore Manufacturing. |
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Thompson stated, to wit: "Numrich states that, since his company holds the patents, trademarks, etc. on the Thompson SMG, it is doubtful if any other company could produce a Thompson of any kind.” |
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It really doesn't make any difference how Roger Cox or other noted authors describe a West Hurley Thompson. We are not talking quality; we are talking ownership of the Thompson Submachine Gun and the continuing lineage of General Thompson's dream. |
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Don’t get hooked into the trap of following the corporation names. Corporation names and re-organizations are easily done. Always follow the business enterprise and rights – this will lead you to the right place. |
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 08:47 PM
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A. F.: It's Velda... man, not Zelda, whoooo now you really upset her, I'm gonna have to calm her down, come here doll....OOh, that's it's baby. The point that this private dick was tryin to make was that nobody gives a rats behind if it's Colt or West Hurley thats stamped on the side, it's still a THOMPSON!, and they both do what they were intended to do, nobody's lookin at the tiny little side engravings when there looking at the business end of these choppers. Mike H. |
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If all this is correct, this would make a WH 28 no different than a Richardson 80% receiver, correct? With the exception of the paper they are both replicas of the TSMG? |
Posted 04 December 2005 - 11:59 AM
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Maguire Industries divested itself of the Thompson in a documented sale to Kilgore Manufacturing. |
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The Gun that made the Twenties Roar by William J. Helmer was published in 1969 – this was several years before the Auto-Ordnance Corporation, West Hurley, New York was created out of the assets of the Auto-Ordnance Division of Maguire Industries purchased in 1951 by George Numrich. |
Posted 04 December 2005 - 12:04 PM
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Arthur: If all this is correct, this would make a WH 28 no different than a Richardson 80% receiver, correct? With the exception of the paper they are both replicas of the TSMG? Thanks, Richard |
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"I define a replica as being an admitted copy of an original. I manufacture replicas. I define a fake as a copy of an original which is intended to fool people into believing it is an original. Therefore, every "Thompson" gun made by Numrich Arms and/or Kahr Arms is a fake" |
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