Inland m1 carbine paratrooper

[Johnny in Texas]

How is the type 2 band marked it does not look right to me. Price is high!

[anton67]

Thank you for all of your opinions.

[Tuna]

It's a type 3 band on it that was put on when the carbine was rebuilt. But the safety has been changed again back to a type 3. It would have been changed to a type 4 during the rebuild at Augusta Armory. Price on it is high and I would think it should be no more then $3000 as it is a rebuild. But it is what it is and they have been just climbing in the price of them.

[Tom A]

My two cents worth - $2800 to $3000 would be a fair price for a rebuild.

[Ltdave]

... 2nd Production run on Inland Paratrooper Carbines - Serial # 5,150,000 thru 6,700,000

did inland actually make 1,550,000 'A1s in that second run or was that just the range that they came out of? seems like an awful lot of them considering there were only 5 airborne units (total) during WWII but the 11th, 13th and 17th didnt have the combat exposure that the 82nd and 101st did...

NORMAL divisions were 12,000-15,000 troops so even if all 5 were fully equipped at the large end of numbers with M1A1s the 2nd run (if every serial was assigned) would be double the number needed...

[Tom A]

Inland's Manufacturing Division, General Motors, Dayton, OH total Production 2,632,097 includes M1, M1A1, T3 & M2 or 43% of total production during WWII. Following the end of WW2 large quantities of M1A1 carbines were rebuilt or upgraded using late war and post war parts. Some of them had replacement barrels and whatever else was determined necessary to meet post war specifications. After completing the upgrades an arsenal marking was placed on the left or right side of the stock or pistol grip.

[Tuna]

There were about 150,000 M1A1 carbines made during WW2 by Inland in the two different runs the government ordered. But there were a lot of spare parts also available and it is unknown how many M1A1 stock sets were later assembled.

[jimb]

The serial number range given is where the A1s were taken from, not the actual number of A1s. The carbines assembled as A1s were standard carbines that were pulled more or less at random from the production line and put into A1 stocks. While I'm certain that there were numbers of consecutively marked A1s, they were not all consecutively numbered.