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I don't know if these have been posted here before....
Archived Report - Alfred Parker Ltd Gunsmiths, Birmingham - June 2010
Report - Parker Rifles The Gun Factory Birmingham 2010
And pics of a revisit in 2012.......
Report - A J Parker Birmingham May 2012
It's A J Parker though, not Parker-Hale.
When I first saw those pictures they reinforced my view of quite how badly Ma Parker (as she was known) had managed the business in her later years.
Thank for the update Hal ... :thup:
Associated older discussion thread ...
Alfred J Parker Ltd Factory (click here)
Regards,
Doug
Utterly bizarre that so much was wasted like this. The butts alone would have made a pretty penny just on ebay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hal O'Peridol
That's not even the worst of it. For example: No.4(T) boxes rotting in the back yard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt.Mainwaring
Well I guess that tells us where the company records ended up.
No vision and little effort obviously. To be handed the whole thing, lock, stock and barrel and then run it into the ground takes a special kind of stupidity.
Couldn't even clean up the building properly.
Wouldn't happen in some other countries I could name.
The UK MoD just simply refused to deal with the company as a parts supplier, even for accessories!
I suppose it sums up the problems of 'keeping it in the family' regardless of the erm human resources...
Think I mentioned it last time, Its a shame about the machinery, I guess somewhere is the slotting attachment and also the vertical milling attachment for the Tom Senior milling machines as pictured, (these bits are worth more than the whole machine set up in Horizontal mode)
Of course, part of the reason that there was so much stuff left over is that her prices made one's eyes water and so one simply went elsewhere.