Originally Posted by
edbear2
From a Crosman forum;
''From talking to former employees, they did make complete guns there. They had complete machining facilities for a number of models. Barrel blanks were supplied by the U.S. parent company, but the machining operations were done at Dunnville. Many of the small parts that were subcontracted out by the parent company, were also provided to Dunnville, so while not entirely stand alone, they did do a fair bit of the manufacturing.The models made in Dunnville are distinctly roll-marked to that effect.
Their hey-day was the era of the 180, 160, 140, and 400 rifles, and the 130, 150, and 38x pistols. I have seen some of these with the distinctive Dunnville markings, but not all, so some of them could have been just assembled here as well. There is a variant of the type 2 150 that by all acounts was only built in the Dunnville plant - The barrel was mounted to the gun with the plastic spacer, like on the 180 or 1400 - the barrel had no concave cut on the underside. Dean Fletcher was very interested when I sent him pics of mine - he was unaware of this particular variant. They are not that common, so I don't think that they were produced in large numbers.
Near the end of the Dunnville operation, they basically just packaged the guns for the Canadian market (bilingual packaging and instructions)and then stuck a small, foil, "Crosman Canada" tag on the gun.''
So perhaps the packaging difference is explained by the above, It's just cardboard boxes at the end of the day, probably flexograpic rubber dies souced locally (I worked in this industry for a short time), so all the info is on there, but the design slightly different.
Total guess but makes some sense (to me anyhow).
ATB, Ed