Cant find Mfg Dates for my Carbine

[BulldogMack]

I need to find what year and all is my NPM Carbine but cant find info on the web about it. ,Jay

[bug]

Post the serial number and I'm sure someone here will help you. They were produced between Jan-43 to mid 44.

Bob D

[BulldogMack]

43599xx , with a U under that. I was told NPM subcontracted this receaver wtih Union Switch and Signal . Was this common?

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Yes, the U on the NPM receiver indicates it was a sub from US&S. I understand that US&S was late with their deliveries and clear SN info isn't available. Your SN is beyond the numbers listed by Ruth/Duff but still in the NPM block. I'd guess it was made around June/July of 44. I don't know how the 50,000 US&S receivers were worked into NPM production but your number would indicate it was late in their contract. NPM produced a little over 400,000 carbines. As many as 50,000 of these could have US&S receivers. I wouldn't say common at a little over 10%. Hopefully others here will have more/better info. My books are old.

Bob D

[bug]

Rats.

I tried to edit my post above but it seems to have gone badly. So,

I was looking another item up and found a picture of a U code NPM receiver. The SN was 4,373,647. What I don't know is the MFG date of that unit. I knew that NPM become Commercial Controls but I didn't know that it happened in May of 44. That would likely back up your carbines MFG date to an April time frame. I wonder where those CC guns went? I wonder if they had U coded receivers?

Bob D

[BulldogMack]

Would the U code receaver'd rifles be more wanted by collectors? Ive never heard of it until now. So its made around May-June of '44. That makes me happy. I figuredi t was a '45 like the guy who sold it told me but I wanted to be sure.

[Tuna]

The U code would add a little bit to the over all value but they are not uncommon. All production ended in April as far as the military contracts and there were 68 receivers sent to NPM then called CCC as replacement receivers. If I remember right your serial number would have been made about December 1943 as the serial numbers were out of sequence. I don't have my books or notes at hand right now.

[BulldogMack]

So were looking at a mfg date from Dec of '43-June of '44 as a window from when it was made.

[Tuna]

No your not looking at a window that large as NPM ended their production on April 30th 1944 so forget May or June 1944.