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I think this was the first action, that if the bolt was open and one pointed the muzzle down, pulling the trigger would not only close, but cam the bolt down as well - aka the very much later M.S. rifle actions.

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Yes, you are right. When the German Gewehrprüfungscommission = rifle testing commission designed a successor to the M71 and M71/84 actions,the head gunsmith of Spandau Arsenal, Louis Schlegelmilch, redesigned the proven M71 bolt by adding two forward locking lugs, locking into the receiver ring, a new bolthead with different extractor and ejector, but retained the proven cocking/safety arrangement. The testing commission favoured the Mannlicher cliploading Magazine, but Mannlicher then concentrated on straight pull Actions. But the Germans wanted Louis Schlegelmilch's turning bolt combined with the Mannlicher Magazine in the design of the M88 Commission rifle. So they made an agreement with the OEWG Steyr, owners of the Mannlicher patents: Steyr got an order for making 300000 M88 rifles for the German army. Further, Steyr was allowed to make M88 actioned rifles for export to other nations. So they did, exporting lots of such rifles to China and even making their own Exportmodell 1904 on the same action. Steyr was free to use the basic Schlegelmilch turning bolt on their own rifles. All turn bolt "Mannlichers" use this bolt design, the Romanian M92, 93, the Dutch 95 and all the Mannlicher-Schoenauers. I have seen the working rifle of a local hunter once: A Mannlicher-Schoenauer M1908, rust pitted, restocked and rechambered to 8x57IS post WW2. It functioned perfectly since the early 1950s with a M88 bolt assembly and some minor modifications.

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