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12/02/2025 20:03:05
HWZ LP1 (Weihrauch's version of the Stanley Aero-Para)
See also:
https://forum.vintageairgunsgallery.com/stanley/aero-para-air-pistol-2/#post-10824
https://forum.vintageairgunsgallery.com/stanley/stanleys-aero-para-advertisement/#post-574
With thanks to John Griffiths author of the Encyclopedia of Spring Air Pistols. He says:
Robert Beeman told me that just after the War, Weihrauch sent this particular pistol (to be called the HWZ LP1) to Steve Laszlo at Hy-Score in the USA for evaluation. For some unknown reason the pistol never went into full-scale production. Perhaps it was felt that it would not fare very well on the American market because of competition from the Hy-Score pistol. Steve Laszlo later gifted the pistol to Beeman for his collection. It appears to be the only one that survives today.
The Stanley's Aero-Para, which was the forerunner of the HWZ LP1, was made by Stanley Waffen GmbH in Berlin in about 1936-1938, and it was taken over by Weihrauch. I have never seen an actual example of the Aero-Para, but it was definitely produced, as it was advertised in a 1936 catalogue, and a brochure / manual for it is known. This is the catalogue drawing of the pistol:
Weihrauch's HWZ LP1:
