sentences:  An approximate total of 29,237 were produced which just about equaled the production of the Colt 1900 and 1902 .38 automatics.Prior to World War I, the pistol filled a niche by providing a relatively more powerful cartridge in a lighter and smaller pistol.However, the Colt 1903/08 Pocket Hammerless in .380 ACP (a lower power cartridge to the .38 ACP, but suitable to smaller simple blow-back pistols) appeared in 1909.