Pen to Paper
To the regret of pen collectors, much of the history of pen manufacture has been lost in time. This is partly because, for many of the people who worked at those factories, it was just a job, and nobody expected that the commodity they manufactured would become a collectable of the future. Malcolm Troak’s book is a record covering 85 years of the Newhaven factory, which is now Parker HQ.
Malcolm started work at the Parker Newhaven factory as a Toolmaker in 1953 and retired as Group Managing Director in 1993. This book contains photographs, plans and recollections, many supplied by a number of “old hands”, as well as Malcolm’s own observations, to complete a history of the factory that began in 1921 as “Felix Pen Works”.
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