GUNS DICTIONARY : PAGE S1 THE DIRECTORY: S–SYRETT Last update: May 2018 s Associated with small arms ammunition components made in Germany after 1940 by →Dynamit AG of St. Lambrecht. S beneath a crown, above a number. Applied by an Australian government arms inspector working in the Sydney depot in New South Wales. See also “British military inspectors’ marks”. S Found stamped into the heel of British Lee-Enfield ‘Short’ rifle butts, which were 2in shorter than the standard pattern. S Stamped under the butt of British →Lee Enfield rifles, near the socket, made for India Service with a spring washer on the stock retaining bolt. S and a number. Found on components of many British military firearms made during the Second World War, indicating a company operating in the ‘South’ (of Britain). The numbers identified individual companies.Typical examples associated with small-arms include ‘S 3’, →Adams Bros. & Burnley; ‘S 7’, →Auto Engineering (Croydon) Ltd; ‘S 30’, →Dashwood Engineering Ltd; ‘S 51’, →Holland & Holland Ltd; ‘S 54’, →Hydran Products Ltd; ‘S 63’, →Kork- n-Seal Ltd; ‘S 64’, the →Lamson Engineering Co. Ltd; ‘S 66’, →Lee Beilin Ltd; ‘S 67’, the →Lightfoot Refrigeration Co. Ltd; ‘S 68’, →Lines Bros. Ltd; ‘S 77’, the →Metal Box Company; ‘S 88’, the →National Cash Register Co. Ltd; ‘S 102’, the →Rolls Razor Co. Ltd; ‘S 103’, →Scoffin & Wilmot; ‘S 109’, the →Sterling Engineering Co.; ‘S 114’, →Trevor Stampings Ltd; ‘S 121’, →Vickers- Armstrongs Ltd, Bath; ‘S 123’, Howard →Wall Ltd; ‘S 125’, A. →Wells & Co.; ‘S 135’, →Air Ducts Ltd; ‘S 136’, the →Aircraft & General Engineering Co.; ‘S 144’, H. →Atkin; ‘S 156’, J. →Boss & Co.; ‘S 159’, →Bratt Colbran Ltd; ‘S 171’, →Cogswell & Harrison; ‘S 173’, the →Cooden Engineering Co.; ‘S 202’, Stephen →Grant & Lang Ltd; ‘S 223’, →E.S.S. (Signs) Ltd; ‘S 254’, the →Portadyne Radio Co.; ‘S 292’, →Waygood Otis Ltd; ‘S 304’, F. →Liebtruth & Co.; ‘S 309’, →Shannon Ltd; ‘S 311’, the →Art Metal Construction Co. Ltd; ‘S 355’, →Sharpe & Wright; ‘S 365’, →Unity Heating Ltd; and ‘S 388’, James →Purdey & Sons. S and two arrowheads. A sale mark used on surplus or obsolete British military equipment. S encircled, often in outline black-letter form. Associated with the products of the →Sterling Engineering Co. Ltd of Dagenham, England. S encircled. Found on miniature revolvers made in the U.S.A. by R.F. Sedgley, Inc., in 1910B38. S squared, often in a box border. Found on No. 4 →Lee-Enfield rifles made in the former Stevens Arms Company (by then ‘Stevens Savage’) factory in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, U.S.A. S within a lozenge, generally taking a squared italic form. Associated with firearms, airguns and gas-powered guns made in the U.S.A. by Sheridan Products, Inc. PAGE S2 : GUNS DICTIONARY SA or S.A. usually within a square or oval border. Found on a variety of military stores: Suomen armija, ‘Finnish army’, used as a property mark. See also ‘Sk. Y.’ SA superimposition-type monogram, sometimes encircled, with neither letter prominent. On →Smith & Wesson-type swinging-cylinder revolvers made in Eibar, Spain, by →Suinaga y Aramperri. SA or S.A. These marks will be found on U.S. military stores—including many .45 M1911A1 →Government Model pistols—refurbished by the National Armory, →Springfield, Massachusetts. SAA: see ‘Single Action Army Revolver’. SAB: see ‘Società Armi Bresciane SRL’. The designation is also applied specifically to the SAB G90 Super Auto pistol, a modified form of the Czech CZ 75 chambering 9mm Parabellum or 9×21 IMI ammunition. Most guns are intended for Practical Pistol competitions and have adjustable sights. Sabatti Fabbrica Italiana Armi Sabatti SpA (‘FIAS’); Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, Italy. FIAS has made ‘Carabina →Rover’ sporting rifles on the basis of a modified→ Mauser action. Shotguns and combination guns have also been offered. Sabatti & Tanfoglio; Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, Italy. In addition to rifles and shotguns, this gunmaking business has offered 6.35mm calibre automatic pistols under the brand name →Sata. Sabot F. Sabot; 67 rue César Betholon, Saint Étienne, France. Listed in 1951 as a gun barrel maker. Sabot J. Sabot; 14 rue des Francs Maçons, Saint Étienne, France. Listed in 1951 as a gunmaker. SACM: see ‘Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques’. Saco Systems, Inc. Saco, Maine, U.S.A. The failure of the heavy-barrel→ Garand derivations, the M15 and M14A2, was counterbalanced by the standardisation of the M60 light machine gun in 1956. This had a gas system originating in the →Lewis Gun, by way of Ruger’s T10 and T23, and a belt feed mechanism provided by the MG.42/T24. ¶ Service showed that the M60 had severe faults of its own, including a bipod fitted onto the barrel rather than the gas tube and a poor zeroing. The M60E1 made some of the obvious changes, by replacing the bipod on the gas tube and moving the carrying handle, but the guns are still regarded as inferior to the MAG and the Russian PK. ¶ Recently, Saco has produced a much lightened gun with a fore pistol grip in an attempt to improve the M60 in a light support role. The M60C is a stripped down M60 with an electric trigger and a hydraulic charger, widely used as a fixed gun on helicopters, while the spade gripped M60D is widely used on pintle mounts in helicopter or gunship doorways. Sadler Arthur Sadler & Goold; Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. This patent agency was a partnership of Arthur Sadler and Lewis William Goold, with chambers at 44 Waterloo Street. It acted for John William →Fearn and GUNS DICTIONARY : PAGE S3 Douglas Vaughan →Johnstone. See British Patents 229,851 and 231,270 of 1924. Saez Cosmé Garcia Saez of Madrid patented a rifle in the mid 1860s (U.S. no. 45,801 of 3rd January 1865), an ineffectual breech-loader tested extensively by the Spanish army, converted from 1859 pattern short rifles (Carabina de Cazadores M. 1857–59). The most distinctive feature was the disc-like breech block, which rotated inside a two-piece housing. Pressing a latch to the right released the clamp, allowing a small button projecting from the top of the breech housing to retract the disc until the chamber-mouth was exposed. Safari Made by Société Anonyme Continentale pour la Fabrication des Armes à Feu →Lebeau Courally only in .470 Nitro Express, this Big Game rifle has double back action side locks, double triggers, and a specially strengthened frame. High relief matted ground Renaissance tracery is cut into the action, barrels, rib and pistol grip cap, with finely detailed trophy heads in panels. An Express-type sight lies on the quarter rib. Safari This brand name was given to a British→ Mauser type sporting rifle introduced c. 1965 by →Parker Hale Ltd on the basis of a →Santa Barbara action. Several versions have been made including a box magazine type (1000C). Chamberings ranged from .243 Winchester to .30–06. An improved ‘Model 1100’ appeared in 1968, with a safety catch on the right side of the receiver and the bolt handle swept downward. Safari A series of →Mauser pattern sporting rifles made in the U.S.A. by→ Rahn Gun Works, with the choice of an elephant, a rhinoceros or a Cape Buffalo head on the magazine floor plate. Chamberings ranged from .308 Norma Magnum to 9.3×64. Safari or ‘BDL Safari’. A ‘big-game’ version of the →Remington M700 bolt-action rifle, introduced in 1962. Guns of this type have been offered in chamberings ranging from 8mm Remington Magnum to .458 Winchester Magnum; they have heavy barrels and stocks reinforced with two recoil bolts. Most guns made since 1981 have straight comb butts instead of the earlier →Monte Carlo type. A variant with a synthetic →Kevlar stock (‘M700 Safari KS’) was introduced in 1989. Safari or ‘Safari Grade’. A term applied by the →Browning Arms Company to the plainest of the three grades of Mauser action sporting rifles made in the U.S.A. See also →Medallion and →Olympian grades. Safari Grade A bolt-action rifle announced by the→ Dakota Arms Company in 1989. Built on a modified→ Mauser /Winchester Model 70 action, chambered for cartridges ranging from .300 Winchester Magnum to .458 Winchester Magnum, it had a gloss-finish walnut stock. However, the original Monte Carlo comb was replaced by a straight version within a year of introduction. Safari Magnum This was a version of the→ Parker Hale →Safari rifle, made only in .375 H&H Magnum with an additional recoil bolt through the stock beneath the chamber. Safari Mark I Otherwise known as the ‘Model 86/70 Safari Mk 1’, this was a lever PAGE S4 : GUNS DICTIONARY action →Daisy BB gun, derived from the No. 102 →Cub, with a concealed lever in the wrist and pistol grip. It was introduced in 1970. Safety A brand name associated with Anciens Établissements →Pieper of Herstal, near Liége. It is usually found on a shotgun introduced c. 1909. Safety Automatic A brand name associated with a revolver made in the U.S.A. by Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works from 1892 onward. It was replaced by the ‘Automatic Safety’ or ‘Hammer-the-Hammer’ design (q.v.), though the differences were minimal. Safety Hammer This mark will be found on revolvers made in the U.S.A. by →Harrington & Richardson of Worcester, Massachusetts, with a spurless ‘no snag’ hammer. It was applied specifically to the→ American and →Young America patterns, but see also →Police Bicycle Model and →Police Premier. Safety Hammerless Developed largely through the efforts of Joseph H. →Wesson, these revolvers had their hammers within the frames, a spring loaded safety plate in the back strap, and an inertia firing pin.