[Retired_in_Texas]

Originally Posted by Chuckaluck

Date derived from source. Boyle-Dayton is listed in '29 city directory, so maybe there was some lag time during transition?

Who really knows? The acquisition by Wayne didn't take place until Oct., 1928 which could explain the date questions. Might be interesting to find a photo of the same building a year or two later to see if the signage had been changed.

GW came up with a newspaper article announcing the acquisition which contained the usual Corporate statement that nothing was going to really change. ( how many times has that been heard before in buyouts?) On the other hand, various citations on collector sites would imply that manufacturing of Wayne's more advance design would be manufactured there while others imply manufacturing was totally moved to Wayne, Indiana; implying that a somewhat obsolete design would continue to be made. That really makes little sense! What is even more curious is that Wayne supposedly re-birthed the visible type pump for a short period of time after WWII. That makes even less sense.