[fred cook]

There were a couple of others in the same catagory. One was the little Le Franceis
(sp?) that worked like the Norinco, usually in 32 ACP or 25 ACP. The other was a Spanish pistol called the Jo-Lo-Ar which had a floating lever on the right side of the slide that would normally hang down where the user could reach out with the right trigger finger and pull the slide back. It was made so that the lever would automatically swing up out of the way when the pistol was fired. Some were made in 380 ACP but most were in 9mm Largo or one of the other seldom seen 9mm calibers. I have seen one copy that was done in 9mm Para. They were primarily made for calvary use so that the calvaryman could cock the pistol while holding the horse's reins in the other hand. It had a spur trigger and an exposed hammer. The ones that I have seen were rather well made. Another case of there not being much new under the sun!