Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion Can anyone decode the mfg date of these pumps?

I have a couple pumps that are 42 builds apart and I'd sure like to know the dates these were manufactured. Can anyone with a date book look up these Wayne 60's?

Serial 1560-CJXA0 and 1602-CJXA0

Thanks in advance!

I have every Blue Book that was published by the "Gasoline Pump Manufacturers Association."
Originally these book were information accumulated from gas pumps companies that were still in business in 1942. What the Association did was to ask the existing companies to give them the a list of all the pump they had made sinde 1927, and in addition, the years of production for the pump and what the model numbers that were used for those years or as some companies supplied, information per month.
This information has been very helpful in determining the year of mfg. for any pump that was made by a company that was still in business in 1942.
But....if you really read into the info, at least I doubt some of the information.
For instance, the first Blue book states on page 94 that the Wayne Pump Co. during 1936 when making the 60 regular base, they used the serial number starting with 100 and ending with 22513. This ammounts to 22413 pumps devided by apprix, 300 days of production equals 75 pumps per day. But they were also making he 40-A, the 50 Display, the 50 dues, the 60 small base.

Wasn'there, didn't see it, but do you believe the Wayne Co. was capeable of production over 100 pumps per day (also remember this was the heart of the depression)so add these in.

One day years ago I had a pleseant talk with the daughter of the owner of a small pump company from the 20 to the 30s. She told me that her father started marking the pumps with a 30 (then) XXX. This would indicate that on the first day the company made over 30,000 pump.

A lot of the info found in these book helps, especially the later years, but sometimes I feel the informaiton supplied for the earlier pumps can be somewhat exacurated.

Back to your pumps: First I want to state that the letters following the the numbered serial number mean nothing, it seams that all the letters following the numbers on the 60s had a "B" at the beginning of them

Just noticed, you are in Canada, my info is US related and I would sasy no relatively

When the Tokheim factory closed in 2002, when they declared bankrupsy, a group of Tokheim historicasns went into the closed factory and recovered every records that could be found. I have seen the stacks of stuff they pulled out. For a number of yeasrs this masterial was sorted into a form where someone doing reseasrch could find the info. he needed. Most of this literature is now in the Auburn Museum in Auburn, Indiana.
One of the items I did go through was one of many book that were originall being used to keep track of the pump, Each page stated the monel number, what color it was being pained (if different than red) who purchased it and where it was going.
There are not any people to look through these books for you, so it necessary for you to go to the Auburn Museum and do your own reseasrch.

According to the info in the Blue book your pumps were 1936, regular (I thinking meaning base) pumps,

Jack & Cindy Sim

That's some good reading there Jack. Thanks for sharing that. While I was curious as to the date this pump might have been made, I was only asking since I had seen others post serials numbers here only for someone to call off a date from what I am guessing was a blue book.



I do realize that these pumps are from the Wayne Company of Toronto so unless there's a Canadian Blue Book, I'll just have to assume these are fairly early pumps from the serial numbers. I don't have any plans to head on out to Auburn, IN but if I ever do get out that way, I'll be sure to check out the museum.

Thanks for your post Jack. Much appreciated.