MG34 s/n 6##, Manufacturing codes and WaA :
- Front housing: s/n 6##a (S/243) WaA26 1940
- Barrel: Dö 101 (S/243) WaA26 1940 (s/n 4497 crossed out)
- Lower housing: s/n 6##a WaA26
- Breech: s/n 6##; Tête de Culasse (ar) 1941 WaA26; Attelage percuteur WaA26 1er modèle
- Trigger housing: WaA26, "1st model by Poingnée designed to mount the components of the complex "Regler" mechanism (cyclic speed reducer)."
- Top cover: "A" 1938 WaA39 Rheinmetall-Maget (1st Variant, machined from solid)
- Upper feeder: WaA26
- Feed plate: (cof) 1940 WaA883 Carl Eickhorn, Solingen
- Stock piston: s/n 6##a WaA26 (s/n 3439 crossed out)
- Bakelite stock: s/n 3066 "Rare, with reinforced steel tip".
- Bipod group: Steyr (without WaA815 98E markings)
- Portage double leather strap (bla) 1943 WaA159
Correspondence between Codes and WaA :
(S/243) WaA26 Mauser Werke 1938/40, Borsigwalde (Be)
(ar) WaA26 Mauser Werke 1941/42, Borsigwalde (Be)
(A) WaA39 Rheinmetall-Maget 1937/38, Tegel (Be)
(cof) WaA883 Carl Eickhorn 1940, Solingen (NW)
(98E) WaA815 Steyr, Steyr factory, Steyr (AT)
(bla) WaA159 E. G. Leuner, Bautzen (Sn)
Production:
There were many small supplier companies, but they were not responsible for assembly.
The four main production and assembly sites in the German Reich were:
- from 1936 to 1943, the "Berliner-Suhler / Gustloff Werke" in Suhl.
- from 1938 to 42, the "Mauser Werke" in Borsigwalde.
- 1938 to 43 Rheinmetall - Maget, Berlin-Tegel.
- from 1941 to 45 "Waffenwerke Brünn" in Czechoslovakia.
- In Austria, "Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG" estimated total production at 7,000 MG34.
The "official" total number of MG34s produced during the war has been estimated at around 500,000.
