actually Mr.Stines rock-a-chute motors were orginaly hand packed by their inventor, Orville H.Carlisle .... G.Harry sold these rock-a-chute motors via his Model Missiles,Inc....which was later bought out by Vern Estes and became Estes Industries...
This is why :
1. Orville Carlisle was NAR #1 and G.Harry Stine was NAR #2
2. Orville Carlisles original Mark 1 and 2 Rock-A-chute models are in the Air and Space museum courtesy of G.Harry Stine....
3. Before Vern Estes made Mabel and started mass producing the model rocket motors, they were contracted out to a Brown Manufacturing Co, headed by a Larry Brown ...it was here that the 2.75" standard model rocket tube came from....as it was from a common fireworks....
4. Orville Carlisle received a patent for both the model rocket motor and model rocket on 7/1/1958 after originally applying for such on aug 30,1954........
5. This patent was ruled invalid later in a lawsuit between Orville Carlisle and Estes Industries I do beleive.....
Orville Carlisle died in 1988.....G.Harry Stine passed in 1997....only Vern Estes of the original 3 is still with us.....