Hayes Manufacturing Company
{{Short description|Canadian manufacturer of heavy trucks}}{{good article}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Hayes Manufacturing Company
| image = Hayes Arbegui 2010.JPG
| image_size = 275px
| image_caption = A Hayes WHDX 70-170 ballast tractor 6x6 truck operating in Spain in 2010.
| former_name = Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd.
| type = Public (1920-1974)
Subsidiary (1975)
| industry = Truck manufacturing
| founded = {{Start date and age|1920}} in Vancouver, British Columbia
| founder = {{unbulleted list|Douglas Hayes|W. E. Anderson}}
| defunct = {{end date|1975}}
| fate = Dissolved by Paccar
| hq_location_city = Vancouver, British Columbia
| hq_location_country = Canada
| parent = Paccar
}}
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
File:Hayes Manufacturing Company truck 1933.jpg
The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer,{{sfn|Francis|2012|p=81}} and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island,{{sfn|Francis|2012|p=81}} as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd.{{sfn|Holtzman|1995|p=46}} 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.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Holtzman|2y=1995|2p=46|3a1=Carroll|3a2=Davies|3y=2005|3p=393}} The company was renamed Hayes Manufacturing Company Ltd. after Anderson left the company in 1928.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Holtzman|2y=1995|2p=46}} In 1933, Hayes added diesel engines and dual axles to their logging trucks; the first truck manufacturing company to do so.{{sfn|Holtzman|1995|p=46}} Despite Anderson leaving the company, the trucks kept the Hayes-Anderson badging until 1934.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Holtzman|2y=1995|2p=46}} When hauling logs had become very popular throughout British Columbia, Hayes started production of over-sized logging truck and trailers.{{sfn|Holtzman|1995|p=46}}
Throughout the late 1930s, Hayes was a distributor of British-made Leyland trucks, and the Leyland trucks supplemented Hayes' range of trucks.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Carroll|2a2=Davies|2y=2005|2p=393}} The company also used Leyland's components for the trucks.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Carroll|2a2=Davies|2y=2005|2p=393}} Hayes merged with Lawrence Manufacturing, a logging equipment manufacturer, in 1946.{{sfn|Holtzman|1995|p=46}} Three employees {{En dash}} Vic Barclay, Mac Billingsley and Claude Thick {{En dash}} left the management division of Hayes to start Pacific Truck & Trailer Co. in 1947.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Carroll|2a2=Davies|2y=2005|2p=393}} In the early 1950s, the company started manufacturing a range of on-road trucks.{{sfnm|1a1=Holtzman|1y=1995|1p=47|2a1=Carroll|2a2=Davies|2y=2005|2p=393}} The Signal Company, the parent firm of Mack Trucks, acquired a two-thirds share in Hayes Manufacturing in 1969,{{sfn|The Financial Post Survey of Industrials|1973|p=159}} and Hayes began a mass expansion;{{sfn|Francis|2012|p=81}} production increased from fifty trucks a year to 500 trucks a year.{{sfn|Holtzman|1995|p=47}} The company was renamed Hayes Trucks in 1971.{{sfn|The Financial Post Survey of Industrials|1973|p=159}} The company at its peak had 600 employees and three plants.{{sfn|Francis|2012|p=81}} In 1975, Signal sold the company to Gearmatic Co., a subsidiary of Paccar, which closed the Hayes plants and stopped production.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Holtzman|2y=1995|2p=47|3a1=Carroll|3a2=Davies|3y=2005|3p=393}}
Products
Hayes manufactured cab-over and conventional trucks.{{sfn|Adams|2004|p=143}} The company used Detroit Diesel, Cummins, Rolls Royce and Caterpillar engines.{{sfn|Carroll|Davies|2005|p=393}} Hayes also manufactured buses, moving vans, tractors and trailers.{{sfnm|1a1=Francis|1y=2012|1p=81|2a1=Holtzman|2y=1995|2p=46}} 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,{{sfn|Kelly|Francis|1990|pp=119-121}} one of which has been preserved by the Transit Museum Society.{{sfn|Transit Museum Society|2024}}
See also
- Pacific Trucks — Company founded by three former employees.
- Challenger trucks — A company founded in 1987 that rebuilt Hayes trucks.
References
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=Works cited=
- {{Cite encyclopedia |last=Carroll |first=John |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Tractors & Trucks |last2=Davies |first2=Peter |publisher=Lorenz Books |isbn=978-0-7548-1524-2 |edition=1st |location=London, United Kingdom |publication-date=July 8, 2005}}
- {{Cite book |last=Holtzman |first=Stan |title=American Semi Trucks |year=1995 |publisher=Motorbooks International |location=Osceola, Wisconsin |isbn=978-1610605731 |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O5dj6xUV3KEC&q=%22Hayes+Anderson%22+manufacturing&pg=PA46}}
- {{Cite book |last=Francis |first=Daniel |author-link=Daniel Francis (historian) |title=Trucking in British Columbia: An Illustrated History |date=September 1, 2012 |publisher=Harbour Publishing |isbn=978-1-55017-561-5 |editor-last=Robertson |editor-first=Pam |location=Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada}}
- {{Cite book |title=The Financial Post Survey of Industrials, Vol. 47 |year=1973 |publisher=Maclean-Hunter |isbn=978-0888961068 |ref={{harvid|The Financial Post Survey of Industrials|1973}}}}
- {{Cite book |last=Adams |first=Ronald G. |title=Big Rigs of the 1960s |publisher=Motorbooks International |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-760-31618-4 |editor-last=Bodensteiner |editor-first=Peter |location=St. Paul, Minnesota}}
- {{Cite book |last=Kelly |first=Brian |author-link2=Daniel Francis (historian) |last2=Francis |first2=Daniel |title=Transit in British Columbia: The First Hundred Years |year=1990 |publisher=Harbour Publishing |location=Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada |isbn=1-55017-021-X}}
- {{Cite web |date=June 6, 2024|title=1937 Hayes PCT-32 “Teardrop” – Pacific Stage Lines #63 |url=https://transitmuseumsociety.org/wp/vintage-fleet/about-63/ |access-date=November 1, 2024|website=Transit Museum Society|language=en-US|ref={{harvid|Transit Museum Society|2024}}}}
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