Back at the cherry st site.

[ForrestArmstrong]

Sad seeing old decrepit buildings like that which represented so much more in bygone days. Progress, I suppose. If I lived around Meriden, I'd try to buy it, just for storage and bragging rights if nothing else.

[King Cobb]

Ed Muderlak rightly or wrongly wrote a different theory about why the Parker gun never resumed production.

[Dean Romig]

I imagine the property taxes on a commercial building in a commercially zoned section of Meriden would be pretty costly.... I wonder how the revenue to pay the taxes and the upkeep on the building would be generated..... Edgar?... George?.....

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[Bill Zachow]

Just for info, Frank LeFever, in Lee Center, NY, bought the original barrel matting machine from Remington. It stayed in Lee Center (North of Rome, NY) until the 90s and has since dissapeared.

[Jean Swanson]

Check Tony Galazan's storage area, I think he owned it at one time after Frank. Bill is correct about the matting machine, I saw it at Frank's shop years ago.

[Dean Romig]

Might Tony be using it to matt the ribs for the $50K Remington Parkers?





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[Jean Swanson]

Dean-----I would think not, with the advent of CNC machines the process can be done more accurately and quicker

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

Dean-----I would think not, with the advent of CNC machines the process can be done more accurately and quicker

Right - Good point Allan.





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[Jean Swanson]

I know there are others out there that have ORIGINAL Parker rib machines , it would only take a lot of time and effort to find one that a person/company would be willing to dispose of. Good luck !!! If I were younger , I would find one.

Think of this question---Do you think Parker Brothers only had ONE rib machine ???

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Allan H. Swanson

Think of this question---Do you think Parker Brothers only had ONE rib machine ???

A well run manufacturing company wouldn't limit themselves to only one machine that was depended upon to produce 5,000 matted ribs per year, let alone the fact that machines break down and can put production way behind schedule without at least one or two backup machines.


A guy would be pretty hard pressed to even find a single whole brick there anymore. The place has been so well bulldozed and the rubble is just about all crushed and crumbled brick and mortar. I have seen some bricks from the area purported to be from the original Parker Bros. factory but which are much too recently made to be from the Gun Works.





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