This system allows simpler machining and was later used by many modern pistols. While the 7.65x20mm cartridge did not necessitate a locked action the 1935S utilised a short recoil action with a breech that locked not with the 1911′s barrel lugs but with the raised shoulder of the barrel’s chamber which engaged with a shallow recess in the roof of the pistol’s slide. They felt it unnecessarily powerful and in 1927 formalised the adoption of the diminutive 7.65x20mm Longue cartridge. The French military appreciated the Colt 1911′s design, and many of its features which they sought to incorporate into their new pistol, however, they disliked the American.
Their work culminated in a pistol which would later become the Modèle 1935S. Manufacture Nationale d’Armes de Saint Étienne (MAS) had developed a string of pistols during the 1920s and 30s. The most successful pistol designs of the trials were based on this system. The French were impressed by John Browning’s 1911 and its short recoil locking system. The testing programme had initially begun in the 1920s with a wide variety of pistols evaluated. In the early 1930s the French military resumed testing pistols for adoption.
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