Suhl, is a city in east Germany, and when the Russians took over there, they shipped all the best machinest equipment to Russia to their defense plants. This left, the poor makers of firearms in Suhl to do a lot of "MAKE DO" work! The names of all the makers in Suhl, were crammed together, under the name SIMPSON, with the exception of Sauer. Sauer, workers escaped into west Germany, and started a new small plant, makeing very cheap, though quality guns in West Germany. The Churchill was most likely made by Sauer. All this is confuseing because they all were made on the same format on both sides of the wall. Later SIMPSON made most of the best firearms under their own name, and assigned the substandard work to the old names like Merkel, and others! All these names were embargoed for import into the USA, till the wall fell.

This is a good feature,on a drilling, and is common to most side, and bottom lever cocked rifle barrel drillings. I had a drilling with no name on it, that I think was a Simpson,(READ cold war MERKEL) that had the tang safety, and what looked like a Greener side safety, or barrel selector, which was actually a barred feature blocking the tang safety from being accedently disengaged. I have several Westley Richards doubles that are fitted with barred safeties, but the lever is on top, in front of the tang safety.

As far as I know Kettner made them, but I have only owned one Kettner double rifle in my life, an 8X57JR. It was a nice rifle, but I simply do not know much about the name's history!