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Originally Posted by PALADIN85020
There has been some speculation about whether FN/Belgium people came to Poland to assist in the design of the Radom pistol. Recent research has indicated that there was no collaboration on the design by FN. The gun was designed quite independently by Polish designers Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński starting in 1930. In their work, they obviously borrowed heavily from John Browning's M1911 pistol, on which the patents were expiring. The main High Power similarity is the use of a cam rather than a swinging link to unlock the barrel from the slide. At the time the Radom was being designed, the High Power had not yet been introduced, although it was under development by Dieudonne Saive at FN following Browning's untimely death in 1926. The Radom did not use an integrally ramped barrel, which was introduced on the High Power when it was first produced in 1935.
John
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John, Yes, Piotr Wiliniewczyc as written in Bergers book denies that FN supplied any design help. Berger mentions also that Wiliniewczyc considered the 1911 and Browning 1903 to be the most modern designs available when the VIS was concepted.
The VIS, as short lived as it was makes for an interesting collectible in it's variations that it went through, mostly by the Nazi's.
Very interesting time frame period where great minds and great designs came about VIS,GP35,TT30/33 throw in Walther with the PP and Mauser HSc. All granddads to certain degree of whats around today.