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Originally Posted by Texas Star
I've read that VIS is a Latin abb. for something. Never read that it's the designers' initials.
BTW, I've found some errors in Ian Hogg's books. But he's correct about the names as you gave them. The Germans called it the P-35(p). Pistole 35, Polish. (Polnisch, if my memory of German is okay.)
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Had a look on Wikipedia (yeah I know but I got lazy) and found the following;
"The handgun was prepared in late 1930, and at the beginning of 1931 the first pistols were ready for testing. Initially it was named WiS (an acronym of the Polish designers' names), later the name was changed to Vis, meaning "force" in Latin, with the wz. abbreviation for wzór ("model").[3]"
So, initially Wis but by the sound of it, by the time it went into production the name had well and truly been changed to Vis.