Brilliant history, thanks Gareth! Just shows how much information there is buried in BBS posts if you take the time to look. But it's amalgamation posts like these that will endure.

Years ago on the American Vintage Airguns forum I tried to pull threads together into some sort of index of posts on early Weihrauch air rifles, which sort of worked but as it turns out was vulnerable to the Photobucket switch off.