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Roger, Thanks for that information.

The curator of the Blyth Battery Museum has asked me, if I can present another 'Great Britain - The Tommy Gun Story' display, when they open again in March. So I am looking forward to that. The volunteers at the Battery were awarded 'The King’s Award for Voluntary Service' in 2025 https://blythbattery.org.uk/

Very nice 👌 Question for the M1 /M1A1 experts.I note Skips M1A1 has a magazine release catch, designed for a drum magazine as well as box mags, so left over from 1928A1 production. In my collection I have an M1A1 and had an M1, both of which had a '1928A1' mag release catch. When did Savage and AO, or their subcontractors, start producing specific M1/M1A1 mag release catches, without the raised area that secured drum mags?

The majority of those early Model of 1928s were pushed straight into service as soon as they arrived in the UK, shipped to all theatres of the war that British and Commonwealth forces fought in. So we don't come across many pristine Model of 1928's this side of the Atlantic, but this one has suffered from bad storage, as well as war use during its life time. Reminds me of many recovered Irish Republican Thompsons, and other weapons, which spent more time under the ground than above it. A good read on the Thompsons supplied and used by the British, and an example of an Irish Republican 3-digit serial number Model of 1921 is shown, in Tom Davis's Great Britain - The Tommy Gun Story. A book I'd recommend and I often refer to, as a good reference on the subject.

Lots of questions, thankyou both for your comments and Roger, for your eagle eyes in spotting that list of items. Early old specification deactivactions in the UK are often found with bits on them changed for various reasons by previous owners or dealers. The new specification deactivations have the receiver welded to the trigger frame; so they can not be stripped, have less items that can be changed. Usual the wood furniture. A lot of owners like their Thompsons to have vertical foregrips, to give it the traditional 'Tommy gun' look. So it is not uncommon to find them added and changed, over the years. On this example, looking at the corrosion, it appears it has spent some time with the right hand side in water. That being the case the wood furniture may have rotted. Hence mismatched furniture being added by a dealer / collector after they acquired it? Just a thought. The screw in front grip mount resting bar, I wonder if it is part of the early deactivation process to block the chamber. Back then a lot of the deactivation process was simple things, which a determined person, with limited skills, could fix and 'reactivate' the weapon. Hence the laws and standards became more stricter from 1995.

Looking at S- 52127, leaves me curious. This example, has a matching receiver and trigger frame, so why would it have a magazine catch with a tooling hole? Information I have on file was that: “S-71263 has the flat ejector, down diamond safety and selector, and a magazine catch without the tooling hole . S-93258 has the same, except it has the magazine catch with a tooling hole. So somewhere in between, that feature changed”. So, S-52127 must have had its magazine catch changed, during its lifetime.

Loud and clear...

This old model of 1928 has just come up for sale in the UK, obviously deactivated. Wonder where this one has been hiding, and someone will their work cut out, cleaning it up.

Cheers Ron, I'll give the Lemon juice tip a try, when I have some free time. Stay safe Richard

Any tips for cleaning off the green tarnish?

Very poignant picture, which I had saw before. So I guessed it must have been on this forum. So a quick search give me this topic posted by azboater in 2018 🫡

Brad, This one is in the UK, but it'll give you an idea what the Denix replica looks like. https://www.dandbmilitaria.com/replica-denix-thompson-m1928a1-smg-sn-1092-o1-c- D&B are also selling MGC replicas, expensive replicas....

Here are a few of clearer photos of the leather tabs attached to the frame Rear And two showing the front tabs, left and right. And very faded markings on mine, which has been used and abused during its lifetime.

Interesting, thank you for that information.

As was mentioned in my post above, and ppgcowboys' post confirms that information.