SANTA FE M1s
I was an employee of Pasadena Firearms (the manufacturing arm of Golden State Arms who used the Santa Fe trade name), from 1963 thru their demise in 1966/67. I worked as a gunsmith at the Fairoaks Avenue facility, and also doing service work and warranty repair at 386 West Green Street.
Pasadena Firearms made a significant number of M1s from scrap purchased (I believe) from the Great Lakes ordinance Depot. This was comprised of often new), but at least servicable garand receivers that had been torch cut in half thru the mag well. We sorted these, machined and welded the long ends together, added material and welded the short ends together. Then heat treated, machined back to final configuration, assembled with all new govt surplus parts, an sold as M1s. I believe that manuf stamping, and s/ns were left intact, and I don't recall any being ID'd as Santa Fe.
No way to saay for sure now, but I am sure these were made in the thousands
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