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A French Comission board chooses to "Gabilondo and Urresti-Eibar"
company to make the pistol, the production began in 1914, according to contract.
The contract specified, that the manufacture would be of 10,000 monthly pistols,
fixing the month of beginning of delivery to August of 1915 .Later the monthly
amount rose possibly to 30,000 units.
The Gabilondo and Urresti-Eibar factory , considered, that was a too numerous
order, for its capacity of production, and beginning the managements to obtain
the cooperation of other factories of Eibar, so subcontracted more than thirty
factories of the city to help them in the production of RUBI pistol .
All "RUBI" pistols, were sent to Bayonne, (MAB), where they were
examined and from sent there to the different units. Like curiosity, although
many of you make Spaniards were small factories, very few pistols were given
back by tecnicos failures.
It is impossible to know the amount of these given pistols to France since
as much in France (2ª World war) and in Spain (Civil War) the archives with
files on the subject, were destroyed.
The automatic pistol Cal 7.65 mm generic "Ruby", was used on Firts
World war, these have continued being used on French colonial conflicts in
Syria and North Africa, on the second World war, Indochina and Algeria.
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