This post referrs to the Ithaca/Miller selective single trigger. There was in the Ithaca Gun Co. files, a 2 inch thick folder on correspondence between Lou Smith and Elmer Miller. My distillation of it was that Ithaca offered a single trigger option with the newly introduced NID. The trigger choosen was the Miller trigger BUT Lou Smith did not want it marked "Miller." Seems Lou charged $5.00 more for the trigger then Miller charged. If Miller marked them, the additional $5.00 would be hard to justify. They went back and forth on the issue, some guns came through marked Miller, some wouldn't. Costs were also debated. Miller finally insisted marking all of his triggers(installed on Ithaca guns) with the Miller name. Ithaca, starting in 1928, then put its own trigger on. Elmer claimed Ithaca stole his design. Lou was quoted as saying I will fight you in court OR with my fists. I doubt either happened. I don't care to debate the legal or ethical issues, this is what happened. I have a log book of Ithaca installed triggers, started in 1928 through 1941. Most were installed by Frank Knickerbocker and some by a man named Ferrel.
When Ithaca/Miller had a relationship, guns were sent to Miller for the installation.
I talked to Howard Miller(elderly son of Elmer) and he was still, after 70 some years, very bitter about Ithaca "stealing the Miller trigger design."
