When the M21 job was sold I was asked by one of the bidders to come up to the old Custom Shop to identify numerous things. The place looked like a hurricane hit it. It was supposed to be locked up after the Custom Shop moved across the street but obviously there were looters. The majority of the fixtures and gages were stored on the floor above the Custom Shop along with M21 parts in numerous stages of operation. The bulk of these were untouched. Tony Galazan ended up with the highest bid and everything left went to New Britain to a storage facility. Andy Wojtowycz of the now defunct Andy's Custom Shop bought the rib matting machine, all jigs fixtures and many gages, along with numerous parts. No frames of any kind were included in the original sale to Tony for legal reasons. The fixtures, jigs and gages were virtually useless to anyone for manufacture because they were from another manufacturing era. Remember that Winchester basically produced all the M21 parts they needed decades before. Unlike manufacturing today, each fixture was for an individual operation. I doubt very much that Tony or anyone for that matter would have used the equipment that was left for anything more than a souveneir or a boat anchor.
