Did "Carbine" Williams design the M1 Carbine? Some not so well known but very interesting facts about designing and getting the M1 Carbine into production in record time.
Who Designed The M1 Carbine?
Who Designed The M1 Carbine?
Jimmy Stewart did, while in prison
Haven't you watched the movie
1952 film about David Marshall Williams
Possibly. The bolt rotates/functions similarly. But everything else is radically different. Trigger group/design is very different, as is how it interfaces with the receiver. Safety operation. Gas system. Slide/op rod. Magazines.There is one person who I don't think gets nearly enough credit for in the M1 carbine. John Garand. Yes I know that he didn't actually work on the carbine, but the carbine is basically a shrunken and simplified M1 garand. For some reason though its always discussed as if Winchester or Williams came up with the whole thing as a completely spontaneous invention. I've read that it was a shrunken down version of 30/06 rifle winchester was working on. If that is the case then the the 30/06 rifle must have look an awful lot like an M1 garand. It's pretty obvious they were looking at the M1 garand bolt and reciever and carrier and said okay lets just make this smaller and lighter.
Winchester's own history states they started with their repeater in 32 win self-loading, which is also the source for the magazine used. Rotary bolts were not exactly new nor novel; the short gas system was a virtual necessity given the Ordnance requirement fr a five pound weapon.but the carbine is basically a shrunken and simplified M1 garand.