The Seymour Products Company
I think there are two versions but probably just die changes.
In July of 1942 the Seymour Products Company was awarded a
government contract to manufacture 4,882,043 Thompson thirty-round
box magazines, purchase order number PO# 1939. The first magazines
from Seymour were accepted by the Springfield Ordnance District in
September of 1942. By December of 1942 production had reached
700,000 magazines per month. The announcement of the M3 submachine
gun adoption, and subsequent cancellation of both the Marlin
Firearms Company U.S. M2 Submachine gun and the Thompson
Submachine Gun, production contracts for the thirty-round
magazines were canceled on February 12, 1943. Because of materials
on hand and quantities of magazines in process, production of the
magazines was allowed to continue on a reduced scale until April
30,1943.
Because of delays in the production of the newly adopted M3
submachine gun, manufacture of the Thompson Submachine Gun had to
be extended an additional seven months. Because of the substantial
amount of additional M1A1 Thompsons beings manufactured more
magazines were needed, and Seymour's contract for the production
of the thirty-round magazines was reestablished. On September 1,
1943 the Springfield Ordnance District awarded a new contract to
the Seymour Company. The new contract was for 2,070,000 Thompson
thirty-round magazines. Supplemental agreements increased the
total of thirty-round magazines manufactured by Seymour to
10,430,000.
In 1945 Seymour was awarded another contract,
W-19-059-ORD-2693, to manufacture an additional 1,945,608
thirty-round Thompson Submachine Gun magazines under revised
drawing D-35506, Revision 1-20-45. No government free issue
involved. This brought the WWII production of Seymour thirty round
magazines up to an incredible total of 12,375,608 pieces, making
Seymour the largest producer of the thirty-round Thompson
magazines during WWII. |