![]() Logically, the British and Canadian ordnance officers who placed orders for Inglis Hi-Powers considered the shoulder stocks and tangent sights as ridiculous. They have tangent rear sights graduated to 500 meters and were issued with wooden shoulder stocks also serving as holsters. The Hi-Powers ordered by the Chinese from both FN before the war and Inglis during the war are very interesting. It’s believed some FN-made Hi-Powers were reverse engineering by Inglis’ draftsmen. The engineering drawings were in Nazi-occupied Belgium. This was the John Inglis Company Ltd., of Toronto. Tens of thousands served in both Heer (army) and SS hands.Īround the same time, a Canadian firm with firearms manufacturing capability was tasked with duplicating them for issuance to the armed forces of Great Britain, China and Canada. ![]() Less formally, it was called the P35, short for Pistole 1935. When the dust settled, the Germans instructed FN to continue production of it under the name 640b. FN had Hi-Powers in full production for only five years when the German Wehrmacht invaded Belgium. ![]() A little-known fact among modern handgunners is the Hi-Power was truly international in both manufacture and usage. ![]()
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