Spanish Civil War Submachine Guns (IX) – El Goliath MX 1935
22/04/2019 by Ismael López D
The Gollat MX 1935 submachine gun is the other example of how Spain tried to manufacture a domestically produced submachine gun.
The MX 1935 is very unknown compared to the STAR-branded submachine guns that were designed during the same era and were eventually adopted by the armed forces.
Scholars of the subject have concluded that all the information that exists to date about this strange submachine gun found in the “Prontuario of Armament” published in Valladolid in 1939 by the artillery captain Mariano Villoslada Miñón. In this publication all the weapons were collected participant in the Spanish civil war. Captain Villoslada calls it as “Gollat system machine pistol, Model MX 1935”. Authors Anglo-Saxons suggested that “Gollat” was the name of the inventor, but, subsequent investigations have identified its designer as Luis Palomo Puyol, who was the one who registered the patent in 1936.
The Making of This Specimen was very limited and therefore there are also doubts regarding its place of assembly. The manufacturer’s signature is “Widow of A.F”, although it could be mistranscribed, because if the “F” becomes “E” the Antonio Errasti arms factory appears. Likewise, among the brands of this factory is the ‘Goliath’ model that it has been assumed that it is the MX 1935 submachine gun. The appearance of this weapon is similar to the ‘Naranjero’, although its length is greater, reaching almost one meter. The canyon of this Submachine gun was perforated for cooling after the shots. The cooling holes follow a different pattern than the MP model 28.
There is no data on the number of manufactured units of this submachine gun. It is to be assumed that after the beginning of the hostilities, the weapons that were ready were distributed among the forces loyal to the Northern Front, some of them later falling into the hands of the Army Rebel.
In 2008, a user of the forum ‘The Firing Line’ asked for help in identifying weapons, since a friend was going to open a military museum. In one of the attached photographs it was seen an example of an MX 1935 submachine gun in fairly good condition. Some of the of these weapons, after the war, fell into the hands of private individuals with private collections or that the government of Spain sold them.
Characteristics;
Length: 970 mm.
Weight: 4,150 gr.
Gauge: 9mm, Length.
Magazine: 32-round straight.
Rate of fire: 800 rounds per minute. More Interesting Axis weapons