Suomalainen Ahlberg taskuasekokoinen pistooli kaliiperissa 7,65

Turkulaisen metallialan yrityksen Ab H. Ahlberg & Co Oy:n johtaja Hugo Ahlberg tarjosi elokuussa 1918 puolustusvoimien taisteluvälineosastolle valmistamaansa kopiota FN Browning M1910 -pistoolista pienin eroavaisuuksin.

Puolustusvoimat tilasi 1000 kappaleen erän.

Hylkäämisprosentti oli korkea ja tiettävästi aseita on tehty 1250 kappaletta, joista 1000 kappaletta vaikeuksien kautta saatiin toimitettua puolustusvoimille vaikkakin myöhässä. Työn jälki oli heikkoa ja aseissa on yksilökohtaisia eroja eikä tästä syystä tehty lisää tilauksia.

"This self-loading pistol is a copy of FN Model 1910, made in Turku, Finland, by a firm of engineer Hugo Ahlberg. It is known after him as Ahlberg pistol. Approximately 1300 pistols were made in 1918-1919, most of which went to the Finnish Army. Quality of the pistols left much to be desired.

Hugo Ahlberg ran Ab H. Ahlberg & Co Oy, a machining company in Turku and he decided that making guns for the government would be a great way to get some stable and profitable business. He made a copy of the FN Model 1910 pistol in .32 ACP, and proposed to the Army.

After a bit of tweaking (the barrel and slide were made 15mm longer than the original pattern), a deal was made for Finland to purchase 1,000 Ahlberg pistols. As so often happens in this sort of situation, production turned out to be much more difficult than Ahlberg had anticipated. He failed to meet delivery deadlines, and quality control problems made at least 20% of his production scrap (of 1,000 pistols delivers, serial numbers are known as high as 1,251). Ahlberg grew frustrated that he was taking a financial loss on the project, and the Army got frustrated that it wasn’t receiving its pistols.

Ultimately, the contract of 1,000 pistols was fulfilled by Ahlberg, although the promised additional orders were cancelled. Instead, the Army purchased a quantity of surplus Ruby pistols from France. These would turn out to be unsatisfactory, leading to later purchases of Luger pistols from Germany. Still, the Ahlbergs were used by the government in a variety of roles (included Defense Forces and police) into the 1960s before the last remaining ones were finally sold as surplus."

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