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Unread 09-12-2020, 12:50 PM   #1
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This Western Super-X 3-inch 20-gauge wooden case showing up on ebay --

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Wes...G/373201313290

reminded me that I had a Western Super-X 20-gauge 3-inch wooden case somewhere. Found it out in my shop building still full of the junk from my Father's house in Seattle that came here in it 17 years ago!! At any rate, anyone know anything about the Arnolt Gun Club, Warsaw, Indiana?

Super-X 20-gauge 3-inch Lubaloy 1 1-8 ounce 6L crate 02.jpg

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I just looked and the Arnolt Corporation in Warsaw Indiana made Marine products and race car engine parts. Perhaps it was a company gun club.
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I wonder if there was any connection to the Arnolt Bristol roadster of the 50's.





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Yes there is a connection.
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Yes there is a connection.

My former employer (in another life) owned an Arnolt Bristol along with two Allards, a few MG's, a Bristol Coventry, two Lotus', and Sterling Moss's "7-Day Wonder". He still has them all.





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After Jeff's response I binged Arnolt Corp. and found plenty of info on it and the cars they imported, but nothing about a company gun club. Briefly --

S.H. Arnolt Inc. of Chicago and Warsaw, Indiana sold four different manufacturer's cars with Bertone bodies during the period 1953 to 1968. Stanley H. "Wacky" Arnolt was a Chicago industrialist, who began importing foreign cars in the 1950s to the United States.
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Perhaps they were the benefactors of a local club?
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