Originally Posted by
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This outsourcing scenario does offer a possible explanation for the Milbro, Limit and Garanta pistols. The steel pressings company that Clarke used could have sought new outlets to keep their machinery busy, and they could have provided analogues of the Briton, suitably modified for rebranding, to other gun houses to retail. The absence of a makers name on these guns and their boxes is then not so surprising, as the retailer would not want the name of the actual manufacturer on its own branded product, and the manufacturer would not want to see some other company’s name on the guns claiming to be the maker.
This is very reminiscent of what happened with the Milbro SP50 die cast air pistol. Manufacture of these was outsourced to a specialist Dundee company and many thousands were sold worldwide not only under the Milbro/Diana name, but under other brand names such as UMA, Perfecta, Hy-Score, and even Webley. The name of the real manufacturing company was never mentioned on any of these.