Inland m1 carbine paratrooper

[Tom A]

Inland's Manufacturing Division, General Motors, Dayton, OH total Production 2,632,097 includes M1, M1A1, T3 & M2 or 43% of total production during WWII. Following the end of WW2 large quantities of M1A1 carbines were rebuilt or upgraded using late war and post war parts. Some of them had replacement barrels and whatever else was determined necessary to meet post war specifications. After completing the upgrades an arsenal marking was placed on the left or right side of the stock or pistol grip.

[Tuna]

There were about 150,000 M1A1 carbines made during WW2 by Inland in the two different runs the government ordered. But there were a lot of spare parts also available and it is unknown how many M1A1 stock sets were later assembled.

[jimb]

The serial number range given is where the A1s were taken from, not the actual number of A1s. The carbines assembled as A1s were standard carbines that were pulled more or less at random from the production line and put into A1 stocks. While I'm certain that there were numbers of consecutively marked A1s, they were not all consecutively numbered.