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February 18, 2011
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Rainy day here in SoCal coastal and predicting several more! Unusual. Cool, probably not above low sixties today! But we endure! 🙂 – Yet serious moment to sympathise with all the folks truly enduring sub zero F temperatures through so much of the US. Here nowadays for us, it’s fires! Scary and leaving entire towns leveled like results of bombing firestorms of WWII!
Using rain excuse to kick back and surf Internet almost in word association fashion re ‘gun stuff’! Moving from Swiss Model 1905 carbines, arriving somehow at Winchester Model 54, an ever favorite subject!
Oh yes. The point! 🙂 Just saw an obtuse reference to perhaps a book by Lloyd Thomsen, “The Forgotten 54”. Never heard of it. With principal 54 info from “THE Rule book” & such great Forums as here, additional info sources always appreciated!
Perhaps info on Thomsen’s work and how to obtain such???
Thanks!
John
November 5, 2014
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Hi John-
Lloyd Thomsen’s “The Forgotten 54” is the cover article of the Spring 2009 WACA magazine:
https://winchestercollector.org/magazines/200903/index.html
I’m eagerly awaiting publication of David Birchrest’s upcoming M54 book, but as far as I know it’s not (quite) available yet.
Stay Dry!!! 
Lou
WACA 9519; Studying Pre-64 Model 70 Winchesters
February 18, 2011
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Thank you very much for the information Louis! I join you in particularly looking forward to that new book in the making concerning the Model 54. I do hope you’ve contributed your expertise in the making! Roger Rule’s chapter on the 54 has been my primary guidance for many years. A great reference, but always thirsting for more! I especially enjoy contrasting the 54 and the Remington Model 30, as great competitors with fundamentally different approaches to design & marketing philosophy/strategy.
Best!
John
