George Hyde (gun designer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American gun designer
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About George Hyde (gun designer)
- George J.
- Hyde Sr.
- (born Heide; January 4, 1888 – December 1963) was a German-born American machinist, gunsmith and gun designer best known for his submachine guns.
- He was born in Apfingen, Germany.
- Already a skilled machinist, he emigrated to the United States in 1927.
- His family followed the next year. Before 1935 George J.
- Hyde was a machinist and shop foreman at Griffin & Howe.
- He quit Griffin & Howe and went on to become the co-owner of Leonard & Hyde in New York.
- He partnered with Samuel A.
- "Harry" Leonard, an expert shotgun and rifle stock maker, who had trained at James Purdey & Sons of London.
- Hyde also did contract gunsmithing work for Roberts and Kimball in Woburn, Massachusetts.
- (The latter was an early semi-custom maker of rifles chambered in .257 Roberts.)
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