Originally Posted By: Rocketman
More likely, IMO, is that the machining of the vertical dovetail and solder assembly was cheaper in the plant than the brazing assembly process. Once tooling is in place, machining is cheap compared to hand work.


Greener made the same observation re British guns. If you don't have the tooling and aren't making the guns in some quantity, dovetailing/soldering doesn't make bottom line sense. But if you're making a lot of guns, as BSA did, then setting up the tooling/machining makes sense.