Royal Typewriter Company
BAR
1918A2 Royal Typewriter Company from 1953 in its original Korean juice, was
overhauled at the Aniston depot (AN before the number) where it received a New
England barrel dated 3-44 and returned to active service. It was re-tested in
England.
Browning
BAR 1918 submachine gun, also produced at FN, standard caliber .30 Browning,
which apparently received a new barrel.
The
markings seem official to me, and for once they did not parkerize it.
The Royal
Typewriter Co Inc must be a UK typewriter manufacturer that also
produced weapons.
Here is
what Google says (this factory was located in Brooklyn despite the word Royal)
among a jumble of other information:
World War II brought
tremendous change to Royal. In order to aid the war effort, Royal converted its
manufacturing to war work exclusively.
Royal manufactured machine guns, rifles, bullets, propellers, and spare
parts for airplane engines. It wouldn't be until September 1945 that Royal
started typewriter production full-time again and not until December 1948 that
it caught up on its pre-war backlog.
If I believe the Google text, this rifle would have been manufactured between 1938 and 1948, and re-cannoned in England in 1953. This seems plausible to me.
Marcel
