Were Parker shotguns made when ordered?

[Heff]

If I had to guess, I would say the margins made on Parker shotguns were all in the black and probably higher on the higher grade guns. The profits on these guns were able to support the realitivly low overhead/cost of Parker Bros.
The Remington Arms Co. Would of most likely needed a much higher contribution margin to cover overhead and be "profitable"

[Bill Murphy]

There must be a bunch of those old Parker-Remington interoffice memos floating around. I believe PGCA has a collection of such items.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

I like Greg's thinking and I'll take it one further: The Parker Gun was acquired by Remington based on bad accounting analysis and shut down based on bad accounting analysis.