McPhail more than likely will let you take all the dictation you can stand. I think he's much more interested in the next example he can find/acquire.
Your info confirms what I thought and to deepen the question, and along the same lines of William F. Read/William Read & Sons -
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hu8WAQA...ter&f=false , if Kirkwood, etal., would have imported tubes and specifically sourced Mauser for tubes which would have connected the dots back to Liege for all the American makers, Fox, Ithaca, L.C. Smith, etc., to have acquired their tubes, possibly non-pattern welded, for their respective doubles, i.e., did Kirkwood offer any Mauser action variants?
Kind Regards,
Raimey
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