High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Parker Manufacturing Company was a machine shop during WWII, a manufacturer of machine tools, a manufacturer/distributor of metal kitchen cabinets and sinks, and an industrial landlord, in Santa Monica, CA. The company designed and manufactured a unique sheet-metal shear (a large machine tool for cutting sheet steel) and was able to provide delivery in only 30 days, when other manufacturers were taking two years to make deliveries due to wartime production backlogs. It also designed and manufactured a unique sheet-metal press. Regarded as the most versatile press ever built, the Multi-Max press performed multiple operations (which previously had required multiple machines) in a compact amount of production-line space which was unprecedented.