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The Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne, often abbreviated to MAS ("Saint-Étienne Weapons Factory" in English), was a French state-owned weapons manufacturer in the town of Saint-Étienne, Loire. Founded in 1764, it was merged into the French state-owned defense conglomerate GIAT Industries in 2001.
M1882 le sabre d'officier d'infanterie (Sword) M1916 couteau poignard (Knife dagger, also known as Le Vengeur) Sidearms. Browning FN M1900; Chamelot–Delvigne M1873 and M1874; Colt M1892; Colt M1911; Ruby M1914; Saint Étienne M1892; Savage M1907; Smith & Wesson M1899; Star M1914; Rifles. Berthier M1890, M1892, M1892/16, M1902, M1907, M1907/15 ...
The Model 1892 revolver (also known as the "Lebel revolver" and the "St. Etienne 8mm") is a French service revolver produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne as a replacement for the MAS 1873 revolver. It was the standard issue sidearm for officers in the French military during the First World War.
The service revolver model 1873 Chamelot-Delvigne was the first double-action revolver used by the French Army.It was produced by Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne from 1873 to 1887 in about 337,000 copies.
Corporate headquarters in Saint-Étienne. Manufrance was the trade name of Manufacture Francaise d'Armes et Cycles de St.Etienne ("French Arms and Cycle Factory of St. Etienne"), a French mail order company which was situated in the manufacturing town of St. Etienne since 1888.
Mle. 1874 Gras Rifle Mfg in 1877 at St. Etienne Arsenal samples of the Greek M1939 bayonet The Fusil Modèle 1874 or Gras was the French Army 's primary service rifle from 1874 to 1886. Designed by Colonel Basile Gras , the Gras was a metallic cartridge adaptation of the single-shot, breech-loading, black powder Chassepot rifle.
Consequently, the national arsenal at Saint-Étienne (MAS) thoroughly reworked and modified the Puteaux machine gun resulting in some measure of improvement but also increased complexity—64 component parts for the St-Étienne Mle 1907 vs. only 32 parts for the Hotchkiss Mle 1914. Barrel changes on the Mle 1907 St-Étienne were much easier ...
The Lefaucheux M1858 was a French military revolver developed for the navy, chambered for the 12 mm pinfire cartridge, and based on a design by Casimir Lefaucheux and his son, Eugene (also a gun designer).