The decision was taken modify the original Browning design to facilitate and economize production along the same lines as two Spanish companies Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. The HAFDASA engineers began work on this contract in late 1936/early 1937. The contract required HAFDASA to produce a pistol along the general lines of the Modelo 19 Colt pistols then in service and to have barrels and magazines that were interchangeable with those pistols. 45 ACP pistols then in service with the Argentine military and police forces. 45 ACP cartridge to serve as an (indigenously produced) replacement for the. 45 ACP.įollowing the introduction of the two carbines, the DGME requested HAFDASA to produce a pistol chambered for the. To this end, in 1936, HAFDASA unveiled a semi automatic carbine based on the Beretta M1918/30 in calibers 9 x 19 mm and. The factory established a pattern of adapting existing designs to satisfy the requirements of the Argentine military and police forces using indigenous materials within HAFDASA's production capabilities. There was nothing revolutionary about HAFDASA's work. In 1936, in response to the DGME request, HAFDASA began to design and manufacture small arms. The DGME later commissioned HAFDASA to investigate the potential manufacture of small arms. HAFDASA won a contract with the Direccion General del Material del Ejercito (DGME), or General Directorate for Army Materiel, to supply the Argentine military with trucks, buses, and engines. Rigaud eventually became HAFDASA's chief design engineer, while Ballester Molina, originally responsible for metallurgy, heat treatment, and production methodologies, became HAFDASA's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Several years later, HAFDASA hired a pair of engineers, the Frenchman Rorice Rigaud, and Carlos Ballester Molina (a member of both the Ballester and Molina families). The name of this company was Hispano Argentina Fabrica de Automoviles Sociedad Anonima (HAFDASA), or Spanish-Argentine Automobile Factory, Incorporated. The history of the Ballester-Molina dates back to 1929 when two enterprising Spaniards, Arturo Ballester and Eugenio Molina established a company for producing Hispano-Suiza automotive products in Buenos Aires.
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