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Though the Stoeger catalog of 1931 offered MS in "The U.S. Cartridge of 1906" (.30-'06), it does not list it by the M1924 designation (as they also did not the M1903, 1905, 1908, 1910) and does not yet list the 'High Velocity' offerings.

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By 1931 Stoeger was not alone in not listing Mannlicher – Schoenauer model numbers. A 1914 catalog by Franz Sodia, Ferlach, Austria, listed the M-Sch options by caliber and models 1903 to 10. All post-WW1 catalogs, including the 1929 Steyr one, listed them by caliber only, without mentioning the model dates.
Of course Stoeger offered the High velocity model in .30-06 only. Why offer anything no one is likely to buy? Up to the 1970s there was still a metric – imperial “language barrier”. Just as Americans like Keith or Brits like Taylor did not understand metric numbers like mm, g, m/s and mkg, Germans usually have no idea about inch, gr, fps and footpounds. So a 7x64 Brenneke or 8x60 “Versailles treaty cartridge” were just as unknown in English speaking countries as .318 W-R or .270 Winchester were in continental Europe.

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