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| | The Hagelin Machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Although the Swiss firm founded by Boris Hagelin has manufactured, and continues to manufacture, many kinds of cipher machine, the words "Hagelin machine" will normally inspire thoughts of their unique lug and pin based machines. |
 | | In the C-38, used by the U.S. Army as the M-209, six pinwheels, with 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, and 26 positions on them, can be set by the user with an arbitrary series of pins that are active. |
 | | The C-52, a postwar version of the Hagelin lug and pin machine, added an extra five sliding bars to the cage that, instead of moving the cipher alphabet, caused the stepping of the pinwheels to be irregular. |
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