Parkers in the Remington Museum

[B. Dudley]

I am sure they have the parts. Just likely not any of the same people that were there at that time.
I know it took me a while to find out who I had to talk to about going in there to inspect Trojan 226709.

[Bill Murphy]

I will try to label the pictures, left to right, from the top.

1. Frank Sweeney rooting through the box of Kolar made parts for the planned Parker reintroduction.

2. Swanson and McCormack in the Archives.

3. Mark Conrad and Kevin McCormack

4. Conrad and Murphy examining the Trojan Skeet

5. Murphy with the prototype Remington Model 1100 Trench Gun

6. Swanson, Dennis Sanita, our host, Murphy, and Ron Kirby, our leader, with the Trojan Skeet

7. The sign in the parking lot of the Arms welcoming the PGCA Research Team

8. Al Swanson at the copier

9. Stock books in the rack

10. Same as #6

11. Order books in the rack

12. Jim Hall, Conrad, Swanson, Sweeney

13. A 1972 shot by my Dad in DelGrego's original shop

14. 1972, Babe DelGrego striking barrels, shot by my Dad

15. Larry DelGrego Sr. holding my GHE Damascus 16 gauge, 1972

16. Dr. Dave Rozier, Swanson, Murphy

17. Murphy and the Trojan Skeet

18. Murphy with the Kolar parts

19. Murphy rooting in the Kolar box

20. Murphy with the makings of his four gun set of Parkers.

I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as we enjoyed our week in the Arms.

[Opening Day]

And now I wonder what is going to happen to the Museum now that Remington is moving out of the State of NY... Is all of this just going to go into storage never to be seen again... Sure got to to thank the Gov. of NY for pushing Remington out of the state.

[Bill Murphy]

In the album that Dave pictures, there were a few pictures of the reintroduction parts laid out, including monoblocs and many small parts. Don Mainland manufactured all parts for the new Parker except tubes and wood parts. There were also a few more pictures of Larry DelGrego Sr. and the old shop that my Dad took in 1972. I'm not sure that Dave took pictures of the whole album or just the pictures he posted. The reason that more guns are not shown is that we had very little time for pictures and took most of them in one day. The most interesting find among the guns in the archives were cases of Model 1917 Enfields that have never been out of the Arms since they were made during WW1. Thanks for the pictures, Dave.

[Kevin McCormack]

You're lucky you got in there at all, what with the pall of 'creative hysteria' looming over the place. Sure beats driving to Arkansas, though!