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Originally Posted by Mike, SC Hunter
What is a M35? In all my years they have been refered to as P35's. Is yours different?
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The nomenclature for the pistol that started its official career as the “FN Model 1935” (there had been other developmental names earlier) is all over the map. P35 is as right or wrong as M35; either one may or may not have been the designation used in one of the dozens of countries that adopted it. The Germans during the war called it Pistole 640(b).
Even the trade name isn’t spelled consistently across the literature. Since I started reading gun-related stuff in the early 70s, I’ve usually seen it spelled as the FN Hi-Power, with or without hyphen, and not just in English, but Anthony Vanderlinden, the foremost FN historian, always spells it High Power.
From Vanderlinden's book:
