Parker Hale
Sign in to saveParker-Hale Ltd. was primarily a British firearms accessory manufacturer for rifle sights, gun cleaning equipment and shooting accessories establishing a reputation among civilian marksmen and shooting clubs in the UK. It also made Firearms and air rifles. It was located in the Gun Quarter of Birmingham, England. It was founded by Alfred Gray Parker and Arthur Hale.
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- Waterlooville
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- 1992-00-00
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- 1910-00-00
- product or material produced
- firearm
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Parker-Hale Ltd. was primarily a British firearms accessory manufacturer for rifle sights, gun cleaning equipment and shooting accessories establishing a reputation among civilian marksmen and shooting clubs in the UK. It also made Firearms and air rifles. It was located in the Gun Quarter of Birmingham, England. It was founded by Alfred Gray Parker and Arthur Hale.
==History== Colour-Sergeant Alfred Gray Parker of the 1st V.B. Royal Warwickshire Regiment founded a rifle manufacturing company in 1880. In 1900 his nephew A T C Hale was taken into partnership, and the business was formed into a limited liability company in 1904 . A first catalogue was issued of arms and shooting accessories and, though limited in its range, clearly showed the company's growing trend for the development of accessories.
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