No one seems to know why it was a ‘C’ and not some other letter, but ‘K’ had already been chosen for the target K frame series and ‘C’ apparently seemed a logical choice for the fixed sight K frame guns. So, in March, 1948, the company needed a new letter prefix for the. S&W had a policy of never going to more than 6 numeric digits in a serial number sequence.) (By “ran out,” I mean they reached 999,999. When the war ended and civilian production picked up again, the postwar Military & Police revolvers got a simple ‘S’ prefix until the Victory number series ran out. So late war Victory models had an ‘SV’ prefix. Near the end of that run, an internal change was made in the lockworks, which was designated by an ‘S’. 38 caliber revolvers were made during the 1942-1945 period. This was the beginning of the ‘V’ (for Victory) prefix. 38 Military & Police revolvers and production had shifted to the wartime effort of providing military revolvers to the U.S. This practice was kick-started in April, 1942, when they ran out of numbers for the prewar. After the Second World War, S&W began using one-letter prefixes on several models of revolvers.
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