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Hayes Manufacturing Company
FormerlyHayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd.
Company typePublic (1920-1974)
Subsidiary (1975)
IndustryTruck manufacturing
Founded1920; 105 years ago (1920) in Vancouver, British Columbia
Founder
  • Douglas Hayes
  • W. E. Anderson
Defunct1975 (1975)
FateDissolved by Paccar
Headquarters
Vancouver, British Columbia
,
Canada
ParentPaccar

The Hayes Manufacturing Company, also known as Hayes, was a Canadian manufacturer specializing in heavy equipment vehicles. Founded in 1928 as Hayes-Anderson, Hayes developed custom trucks and off-road vehicles to expanded with the local forestry industry in Vancouver. Before World War II, Hayes had diversified into streamliner buses, while afterwards they expanded into on-highway semi-trailer trucks. In 1969, Mack Trucks acquired a majority stake in Hayes before ultimately being sold off to Paccar five years later. Hayes ceased operations in 1975.

History

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A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933

The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer,[1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island,[1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd.[2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong enough for the heavy loads of the logging industry.[1][2][3] The company was renamed Hayes Manufacturing Company Ltd. after Anderson left the company in 1928.[1][2] In 1933, Hayes added diesel engines to their trucks; the first logging truck manufacturing company to do so.[2] Despite Anderson leaving the company, the trucks kept the Hayes-Anderson badging until 1934.[1][2] Throughout the late 1930s, Hayes was a distributor of British-made Leyland trucks, and the Leyland trucks supplemented Hayes' range of trucks.[1][3] The company also used Leyland's components for the trucks.[1][3]

Hayes merged with Lawrence Manufacturing, a logging equipment manufacturer, in 1946.[2] Three employees – Vic Barclay, Mac Billingsley and Claude Thick – left the management division of Hayes to start Pacific Truck & Trailer Co. in 1947.[1][3] In the early 1950s, the company started manufacturing a range of on-road trucks.[2][3] The Signal Company, the parent firm of Mack Trucks, acquired a two-thirds share in Hayes Manufacturing in 1969,[4] and Hayes began a mass expansion.[1] The company was renamed Hayes Trucks in 1971.[4] The company at its peak had 600 employees and three plants.[1] In 1975, Signal sold the company to Gearmatic Co., a subsidiary of Paccar, which closed the Hayes plants and stopped production.[1][2][3]

Products

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Hayes manufactured cab-over and conventional trucks.[5] Hayes also manufactured buses, moving vans, tractors and trailers.[1][2] The company's few bus models included the Hayes Teardrop, a streamlined bus introduced in 1936. Several Teardrop buses were purchased by Pacific Stage Lines,[6] one of which has been preserved by the Transit Museum Society.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Francis 2012, p. 81.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Holtzman 1995, p. 46
  3. ^ a b c d e f Carroll & Davies 2005, p. 393.
  4. ^ a b The Financial Post Survey of Industrials 1973, p. 159.
  5. ^ Adams 2004, p. 143.
  6. ^ Kelly & Francis 1990, pp. 119–121.
  7. ^ Transit Museum Society 2024.

Works cited

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  • Carroll, John; Davies, Peter (July 8, 2005). The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Tractors & Trucks (1st ed.). London, United Kingdom: Lorenz Books. ISBN 978-0-7548-1524-2.
  • Holtzman, Stan (1995). American Semi Trucks. Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International. p. 46. ISBN 978-1610605731.
  • Francis, Daniel (September 1, 2012). Robertson, Pam (ed.). Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History. Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 978-1-55017-561-5.
  • The Financial Post Survey of Industrials, Vol. 47. Maclean-Hunter. 1973. ISBN 978-0888961068.
  • Adams, Ronald G. (2004). Bodensteiner, Peter (ed.). Big Rigs of the 1960s. St. Paul, Minnesota: Motorbooks International. ISBN 978-0-760-31618-4.
  • Kelly, Brian; Francis, Daniel (1990). Transit in British Columbia: The First Hundred Years. Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada: Harbour Publishing. ISBN 1-55017-021-X.
  • "1937 Hayes PCT-32 "Teardrop" – Pacific Stage Lines #63". Transit Museum Society. June 6, 2024. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
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