A mapping f : X → Y is
called quasi-open if the interior of f(U) is non-void for any non-void open subsets
U of X. The main result in this paper is that the image of an M1-space
under a quasi-open, countably bi-quotient closed mapping is an M1-space;
it follows that the locally finite regular closed sum of M1-spaces is an
M1-space.