When I graduated from high school, each member of our class (all 130 of us) received a Torrington Company paperweight, which was a clear plastic pyramid with a bearing or other small part made by the plant inside the pyramid. The Torrington Company logo with a dragon on it was printed on the bottom of the paperweight. These were produced in the 1990s, while the plant was still going but long after the heyday of its bicycle parts production. The father of a friend of mine was a fleet manager for Torrington Co., so he got paperweights for everyone who graduated that year.
The plant touched every family in the area in some way or another. My brother worked there briefly in the 1980s. Several of my friends had fathers who worked there. My grandfather had done odd jobs as a kid around the periphery of the plant, getting lunches for workers there, getting scrap from there, etc. It was one of the last surviving heavy industries in the area when it went out some years ago. The loss of Torrington Company and Aerospace Industries in Bantam, Connecticut, and New Departure in Bristol were big losses in this area.