In February 1910, Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co. of St Louis, was the winning bidder for Remington's entire inventory of break action guns, some half million dollars worth. Remington saw the future and knew they had a winner in their John M. Browning designed Autoloading Gun, and their John D. Pedersen designed Repeating Gun. The letter from M. Hartley Company, owner of Remington Arms Co. and Union Metallic Cartridge Co., to Norvell-Shapleigh acknowledging their winning bid is shown in Roy Marcot's Remington book. In its second year J.J. Blanks of Trezevant, Tennessee, won the 1907 Grand American Handicap with a Remington Autoloading Gun.
