Parker Factory Communications

[B. Dudley]

Very interesting Dean.


There is documentation at the factory of orders given by some department head (I believe in the 1950s) to throw out anything pertaining to Double Gun production. Which would align with the estimate of around 12-13 years before that 1967 letter. In the early 1950s Remington was toying with offering a “Parker” again, in name only. An economy boxlock of their own design, much like the Lefever Nitro Special was at Ithaca. But after that never actually happened, this destruction of double gun records pretty much tells what the companies mindset was towards them.
Apart from them purchasing Parker, the company had not made a double gun since the 1894/1900, which ended in what, 1905 or 1910 or something.? Their deal became repeaters.