Was there ever a Brausch silencer?

[CountryGent]

In the classic film Dr. No, when the fictional spy James Bond receives his iconic PPK, the Major supplying him with said references that it "Takes a Brausch silencer with very little reduction in muzzle velocity ..."

So, did one ever exist, or was it made up? IIRC, I read somewhere Ian Fleming was a "gun guy", but I don't recall how much he was involved with the films based upon his work.

(And, yes, I'm killing time between intensely stupid meetings. )

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[CountryGent]

Speaking of Bond films and silencers, today's Mystery Silence Theater:

 

[Tengu3]

I've never been able to find anything about a silencer (suppressor) company called Brausch. That doesn't mean there wasn't one. Maybe they made up the name because they didn't want to bother getting permission from a real company to use their name. This was, after all, the first 007 film, working with a low budget, and no established reputation yet.

As for Fleming being a "gun guy"? NO. No he was not. Yes, he carried a tiny .22 Browning pocket pistol during the war years, but other than acquiring it, there's no record of his having trained with it, or his having any interest or knowledge of firearms for their own sake. His writing about firearms was all researched for his novels, and he screwed up a lot of what he wrote. His original manuscript for his first 007 novel, Casino Royale, misspelled the name of Beretta as, "Biretta," and gave the caliber of Bond's gun as .29, instead of .25. There is no such caliber as .29. Even a basic firearms fan would know that. Most of what Fleming wrote about guns came from the fan, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote to Fleming to object to Bond's carrying a .25 caliber pistol. Fleming asked for Boothroyd's recommendations but managed to screw them up when writing them into his sixth Bond novel, Dr. No. For instance, in the novel, Bond is advised to carry his new PPK in a Berns Martin Triple Draw holster, but Fleming forgot that holster is only for revolvers, not a semi-auto pistol like the PPK. Anyway, no, Fleming was most definitely NOT a firearms guy. James

In the classic film Dr. No, when the fictional spy James Bond receives his iconic PPK, the Major supplying him with said references that it "Takes a Brausch silencer with very little reduction in muzzle velocity ..."

So, did one ever exist, or was it made up? IIRC, I read somewhere Ian Fleming was a "gun guy", but I don't recall how much he was involved with the films based upon his work.

(And, yes, I'm killing time between intensely stupid meetings. )

 

[R3dundantC]

I've never been able to find anything about a silencer (suppressor) company called Brausch. That doesn't mean there wasn't one. Maybe they made up the name because they didn't want to bother getting permission from a real company to use their name. This was, after all, the first 007 film, working with a low budget, and no established reputation yet.

As for Fleming being a "gun guy"? NO. No he was not. Yes, he carried a tiny .22 Browning pocket pistol during the war years, but other than acquiring it, there's no record of his having trained with it, or his having any interest or knowledge of firearms for their own sake. His writing about firearms was all researched for his novels, and he screwed up a lot of what he wrote. His original manuscript for his first 007 novel, Casino Royale, misspelled the name of Beretta as, "Biretta," and gave the caliber of Bond's gun as .29, instead of .25. There is no such caliber as .29. Even a basic firearms fan would know that. Most of what Fleming wrote about guns came from the fan, Geoffrey Boothroyd, who wrote to Fleming to object to Bond's carrying a .25 caliber pistol. Fleming asked for Boothroyd's recommendations but managed to screw them up when writing them into his sixth Bond novel, Dr. No. For instance, in the novel, Bond is advised to carry his new PPK in a Berns Martin Triple Draw holster, but Fleming forgot that holster is only for revolvers, not a semi-auto pistol like the PPK. Anyway, no, Fleming was most definitely NOT a firearms guy. James

This is a universe that has Q and his gadgets and you are going to sit here and tell me that there is no way that 007 could possibly carry a .29cal Biretta?

 

[lucusloc]

In the classic film Dr. No, when the fictional spy James Bond receives his iconic PPK, the Major supplying him with said references that it "Takes a Brausch silencer with very little reduction in muzzle velocity ..."

So, did one ever exist, or was it made up? IIRC, I read somewhere Ian Fleming was a "gun guy", but I don't recall how much he was involved with the films based upon his work.

(And, yes, I'm killing time between intensely stupid meetings. )

Another interesting bit of trivia is in that time suppressors were the old wipes-and-stuffing variety that contacted the bullet when fired. This is where we get the modern video game conceit of suppressors adversely impacting dispersion and velocity. The modern baffle stack does not contact the bullet and does not adversely impact dispersion or velocity. In fact a well fitted suppressor might even add a percent or two to velocity. In the time the film was set a suppressor that had "very little reduction in muzzle velocity" would have been cutting edge technology.