• Tenite is a brand of cellulosic thermoplastic materials produced by the Eastman Chemical Company. Created in 1929, and trademarked in 1932, Tenite has...
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  • Previously the 22-410 Stevens Arms combination gun had been offered with a Tenite stock. The firearms market generally lacked experience with synthetic stocks...
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    open. Cellulose acetate is marketed under various trade names, such as Tenite by the Eastman Chemical Company, zyl and zylonite, Cellon, manufactured...
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    for ease of stowage. Its predecessor was made by Stevens and sported a tenite stock and forearm. In WWII, 15,000 were ordered and issued in air crew survival...
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    was made with a new organic plastic product by Eastman Plastics called “tenite”, which protected the glass and provided implosion protection for the user...
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    than double-column, staggered-feed designs like the Thompson. Plastic (Tenite) dust caps were later issued to cover the feed end of the magazine to keep...
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    Imperial telephone as issued in 1955 with a gold lacquered base and ivory Tenite plastic handset. The subscriber set (rear) was painted in harmonizing color...
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    along the body and continued onto the standard wheelhouse shields. A white Tenite steering wheel was standard while the instruments were round and set into...
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  • combo guns and Model 94 single barrel shotguns with stocks molded from Tenite plastic. After the war, it produced the model 67 and model 69 pump shotguns...
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    third of the interior of the Mk 7 bullets out of aluminium (from Canada) or tenite (cellulosic plastic), wood pulp or compressed paper, instead of lead and...
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