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Chops,
There's a company called something like Ermi that produces contract guns/parts or used to.

H&H did contract a boxlock in the seventies or around that time. I thought I read that in the early days, contracting parts/assemblies was the norm for the big guys in London.

I got the impression that at some point, H&H and others brought all or most of the work in-house. I have seen the H&H video showing a full shop of machinery.