![]() ![]() Some 100,000 Mauser rifles were procured and refurbished under this agreement.Ī further 5,500 Mannlicher rifles were locally produced with expertise procured from the famous arms works of Styer in Austria. Using the already existing arms factory at Brno, arms procured under the armistice agreements, were refurbished. In order to achieve this, the State took over the existing armoury at Brno and floating a plan to refurbish German war surplus arms as well as a number of Steyer Mannlicher rifles. With the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the conclusion of WW 1 in 1918, the new Czechoslovakian state needed to rearm their fledgling army. This company with it’s numerous manufacturing plants and subsidiaries would later be the manufacturer of the sporting rifles we have come to know as the Models 21 H and 22 F, the later Galas rifle or ZG47 as well as the full range of Brno 22 small caliber rifles as designed by the Koucky brothers. In 1918 this plant would form the basis for the later Zbrojovka Brno or Arms factory Brno abbreviated as ZB. The city of Brno in the former Moravia was home to an arms manufacturing plant controlled by Vienna. These companies were mostly owned and funded by banking groups and corporations out of Vienna and were taken up by the new Czechoslovakian State to form the core of the Czechoslovakian arms industry. Under Hapsburg rule numerous small independent gun makers and independent arms and ammunition manufacturing operations existed within the boundaries of what was to become Czechoslovakia. ![]() It must be noted that historically the Czechs were very much a nation of gun makers.Ĭzechoslovakia was founded on the former lands of Moravia and Bohemia. The common starting point in time for both companies starts with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the conclusion of WW1 and the founding of the State of Czechoslovakia in 1918. These companies also diversified into other forms of light industry and this has been omitted. This short historical overview is by no means complete and it leaves out much to do with the manufacture of the machine guns and other arms of war. ( Ceskoslovenska Zbrojovka) one would have to go back in history, look at each company separately and try and put each development to a timeline. In order to gain an understanding of the history of ZB As Promised some random notes on the history of Brno and CZ rifles:Ī brief overview of the histories of the Brno and CZ arms factories and companies:īecause of the impositions of language and the isolation of the Warsaw pact countries during the cold war the general American shooting public have a poor understanding of Czech arms manufacture, particularly how Brno and CZ came about. ![]()
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