ERMA-Werke

Post WWII Commercially Manufactured M1 Carbines

ERMA-Werke
Dachau, Bavaria

.22 long rifle
.22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire

The ERMA-Werke Model E M1 .22 LR Self-Loading Rimfire Rifle

Directory of Pages (with links)
History, Importers, Markings	Function Animations	Cleaning & Disassembly
Part I: 1945-1990
Part II: 1990-2000+	Parts & Diagrams	Reassembly

Function & Animations

Overview

The Erma Werke EM1 may look like an M1 Carbine but the internal parts are not the same. Knowledge of how the parts interact is helpful for knowing the rifle but also helps envision how the parts interact with one another, along with parts placement for disassembly and reassembly.

Semi-automatic rifles in .22 long rifle caliber are popular in the United Kingdom as they are everywhere else. One of the British EM1 owners happens to be well versed with authoring 3D graphics and animations. Many thanks to Bryan Cox of Bristol, UK, for sharing his work with EM1 owners on this website. And many thanks to his wife Liz for sharing Bryan with us for the hundreds of hours it took to author the Erma Werke EM1 3D graphics and animations you see on this website.

The Animator

Bryan Cox is a retired 3D Graphics Designer residing in England and the author of the animations on this page. He volunteered to tackle this task and has worked patiently with me for a number of years (and many hundreds of hours on his own) to help make these happen. Keep in mind his country has not allowed him to own or possess a functional U.S. Carbine to obtain all of the required measurements and learn the functions necessary for these animations. That he's accomplished this whilst encumbered with these political handicaps speaks highly as to his abilities.

All images and animations on this web page are copyrighted under international law and the property of Bryan Cox.
Duplication and/or use without his express permission is prohibited by law.

Getting the Animations to Work

The evolving internet and evolving software for the internet has been a bit of a challenge in keeping these videos working in all the various browsers. The current renditions should work regardless of the browser you are using. They are universally compatible. What we cannot control are the individual browsers of those who view the animations. If the videos don't work check your browser video playback settings and the help function for your browser to learn the settings you'll need to play the videos.

The embedded video and video player are formatted by Vimeo.com. Unfortunately the Vimeo player does not offer frame by frame viewing or slow motion. This is a sacrifice we've had to make for universal compatibility.

Effective March 2017 Mozilla dropped support for all video formats in Firefox other than Adobe Flash player prompting the change to what you see now. The previous versions used Apple Quicktime and/or Apple's Quicktime plug in which the videos were initially constructed for. Apple has since dropped support for Quicktime and with Mozilla's decision to drop all but Adobe Flash the Microsoft Media Player plug-in no longer works in Firefox. Hopefully someone will come up with an alternative that offers more video playback features that is universally compatible with all browsers. Should that happen we will migrate to their service.