The Walam 48 is the “export” version of the FEG M.48, Hungary’s copy of the WWII Walther PP. Any price and availability information displayed on [relevant Amazon Site(s), as applicable] at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product. (This holster is not the original Egyptian design but is very often seen with Tokagypts today, like this one imported into the USA by SSME.) ( Log Out / It had originally been imported into West Germany by Albin Wahl during the Cold War.). For example in Cold War-era Poland the company Universal filled a similar niche for Cenzin, the Polish counterpart of Technika. They use Browning Tilt Barrel lock system. The same Tokarev cartridge was also used by the PPSh-41 and PPS-43 submachine guns, two other WWII weapons that saw significant post-WWII use.
The 44.M Tas Prototype Heavy Tank. (One of the WWII Mosin-Nagants which had been remanufactured and scoped by FEG, then sold by Technika to North Vietnam for use by VC snipers. The craftsmanship at FEG was higher than that of WWII Soviet production. The gun itself never made it to army service, all being instead immediately diverted to the Egyptian National Police. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account.
( Log Out / Neither FEG nor Technika ever delineated a “series” for the Tokagypt (a portmanteau of Tokarev and Egypt). The antler on this Tokagypt appears as an exceptionally low quality strike. All which made it to Egypt (plus some undelivered) are of this version, which had brown bakelite grips and a knucklerest on the magazine’s bottom. Especially in Europe, the Tokagypt is known as the “terrorist’s delight”. Outside of firearms historians there frankly isn’t much public interest into sorting them all back out. April 12, 2018. (The coat of arms of Misr (Egypt, in Arabic) around the Tokagypt project’s relevant timeframe: the design used during WWII until 1953, the design used from 1953 – 1958, and then the U.A.R. 1940 leather model, a British design of WWII suitable for the Enfield and Webley revolvers in use during WWII. On the slide’s left side is a rather crude Soviet Union hammer & sickle (nothing in these guns was made in the USSR), then the “Parabellum Cal. In September 1944, the advancing Soviets crossed the Hungarian border. None the less, the Tokagypt spread to other 1970s / 1980s terror organizations in western Europe: Basque separatists in Spain, far-left groups in Portugal, and so on. Near the end of WWII, a cheaper simple stamped-on serration was substituted. The .380ACP Rendõrségi was a true copy to the point of parts interchangeability with WWII German Walthers. The serial numbers have no sequence. Surprisingly after all these years, the story of what exactly went sour with the Tokagypt deal in 1958 has never been revealed. Nor is it an Egyptian National Police property mark, shown below on a WWII Lanchester submachine gun imported for police use after the war: This perched falcon symbol was actually an Egyptian uniform cap & collar device used only very briefly during the mid-1950s. (photo via Tague website). Egypt had a slightly better reputation in Moscow than chronic deadbeats Syria and Iraq, but not by much. This is uncertain and maybe fanciful. Hungary was originally part of the “minor Axis” in Europe alongside Bulgaria and Romania. The only known exception was North Korea which for some reason was allowed to use Soviet rubles. (A Hungarian freedom fighter during the 1956 uprising. Its one and only reason to exist was to ingest “capitalist-world” currencies like the dollar, pound, and mark into the encapsulated Hungarian treasury. Several theories exist as to what happened.
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