Dieudonné Saive
John Browning, who was FN's chief weapons designer, initially declined to respond to the French request because he felt standard single-row magazines holding seven or eight rounds (such as was used in his Colt's Model 1911) were sufficient.Saive, who was then Browning's assistant at FN, set to work designing a high-capacity, double-row magazine similar to those used in LMGs and SMGs of the time.[6] In April 1943, China requested 180,000 Hi-Powers with hollow wooden shoulder stocks that also served as holsters through a Mutual Aid Plan with Canada.After the war, the Browning Hi-Power was adopted as the standard military service sidearm of many Western countries, including the United Kingdom and Australia.[7] Therefore FN Herstal was approached, and Belgian designers came up with the idea to flip the BAR action upside down and mate it with the proven MG 42 belt-feeding mechanism.[8] The work was started in the late 1940s by Dieudonné Saive, who previously designed the FN Mle D BAR variant, and finished by Ernest Vervier in 1953, with Swedish trials beginning in 1955.
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