HAYES TRUCK

Hayes-Anderson Motor Co. Ltd. (1920-1928)
Hayes Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (1928-1971)
Hayes Trucks Ltd. (1971-1975)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This is a Hayes-Anderson radiator emblem (late 1930s)    mjs
Size: 98mm wide 43mm high   MM: None

Douglas Hayes and W. Anderson established the Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. in 1920, initially to operate as distributors for US-built Day-Elder trucks. In 1922, the company began to build the Hayes-Anderson truck for use in the logging industry. The company was purchased by a group of local industrialists in 1928. The company name was changed to the Hayes Manufacturing Company Ltd. and, although the Hayes-Anderson name continued to be used for some time, the truck eventually became Hayes.

Hayes-Anderson built both highway and off-road trucks, particularly for the logging industry, using Hercules, Continental and Leyland engines. Over the years Hayes trucks ranged from 1-1/2-ton to 15-tons, although some units were used to haul loads of up to 50 tons or more. In the 1930's, Hayes also built special dockside and warehouse trucks with dropped frames for easy loading. Hayes also built buses and coaches during the 1930's. In the late 1930's Hayes became the British Columbia distributors for Leyland vehicles and developed their own truck range with Leyland.  

After World War II, Hayes began to build a line of highway tractors alongside their logging trucks. Mack acquired a majority interest in Hayes in 1969 but the company was sold to Paccar in 1975 and it was all over for Hayes.

Emblems

There are very few good photos of early Hayes-Anderson trucks. The following advertisement from about 1928, shows a Haves-Anderson dump truck but the emblem is indistinct. However, the emblem appears similar to the cast-in radiator emblems shown in later photos below and is likely to be the same. 

This is a Hayes-Anderson dump truck ad (c1928)

It appears that Hayes-Anderson trucks built from the mid-1920's to the late 1930's displayed the Hayes-Anderson name cast into the aluminum radiator tank top, see the following examples:

This is a Hayes-Anderson fire truck (c1930)  bigmacktrucks  

This is a Hayes-Anderson truck (1933) wiki

The Hayes-Anderson truck shown above also carries a rectangular hood side nameplate, see close-up below:

Close up showing rad emblem & hood side nameplate

Later Hayes-Anderson trucks carried a smaller painted, pressed metal radiator emblem following the same basic design as the earlier cast-in emblem, see example shown above at the top of this post and again below. This Hayes-Anderson radiator emblem is rare.

This is a Hayes-Anderson radiator emblem (late 1930s)   mjs
Size: 98mm wide 43mm high    MM: None

In the late 1930's, when Hayes became distributors for Leyland, Hayes developed some Leyland based models, which carried a painted, pressed metal Hayes-Leyland radiator emblem, see example shown below. This Hayes-Leyland radiator emblem is very rare.

This is a Hayes-Leyland radiator emblem (late 1930's)   mjs
Size: 98mm wide 43mm high   MM: None

In the late 1940's, heavy Hayes trucks did not carry a radiator emblem but did display the "HAYES" name on large hood side nameplates, see examples shown below of a heavy Hayes logging truck and an advertisement for a coal truck built by the Hayes subsidiary Hayes-Lawrence in 1948:

This is a Hayes logging truck with hood side nameplate (1948)

Heavy coal truck with hood side nameplate (1948)