Originally Posted By: ellenbr
Originally Posted By: L. Brown
The latter states: "Manufacture d'Armes Verney-Carron, St-Etienne (Loire). Depots: Paris, 37, rue Vivienne - Lyon, 8, rue des Archers." If there was any absorbing going on, seems to me V-C would have ended up in Belgium--which they clearly did not. Likely some Belgian makers just recognized and used a good design, as in the Helice system.....
Zip in Belgium.)


Just to remind you of the statement. Seems the catalogue was attempting to pull one over on you.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
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Right, Raimey. The purpose of a catalog, with which I think maybe even you would agree, is to SELL GUNS. So, if the 1934 V-C catalog said the company was located in St. Etienne when they were actually in Liege, that wouldn't be terribly helpful in selling guns, now would it? As for having a presence in Liege--all I can say is none listed in their 1922 catalog. As for the 1934 catalog, I have only a few pages, so they may well have been doing business elsewhere than the two French "depots" in Paris and Lyon, in addition to their factory in St. Etienne. But to suggest that they were "absorbed" by Cordy . . . based on what? An obviously bizarre translation from the French using the phrase "taken in"? Sorry, but for a guy like you, who refuses to accept barrel-making machines as evidence, when Ken tells you he's seen them in the V-C factory in St. Etienne . . . all you're showing so far is your Liege prejudice. It would also mean that the company was temporarily "absorbed" by Cordy in the late 20's, then "unabsorbed"--and back in business making guns, at the very same location in St. Etienne (same address 1922 and 1934), that they were before being "absorbed".

I think we're getting into shotgun fairytale land here.