Existing comment:
Wayne Model 60 Gas Pump, ca 1935-50
This gas pump was installed at Croom and remained on the property for decades after the airfield closed. It has been in storage at the Museum since the late 1990s. As one of the few surviving artifacts from the airfield, the Museum is embarking on a stabilization and restoration project to maintain and permanently display the pump.
The Wayne Oil Tank Company was founded in Indiana in 1891 and began making gas pumps in 1907. The Model 60 was first introduced in 1935 to be a more aesthetically pleasing version of the company's Model 40, which was the first gas pump to display both the volume of fuel pumped and what the customer owed. An attractive gas pump was important to gas station owners who were looking to pull in customers owed. An attractive gas pump was important to gas station owners who were looking to pull in customers with modern, state-of-the-art operations. Presumably the Cloud Club chose to install a Wayne pump because it was advertised as the most accurate gas pump available. Today, the company is still in the gas pump business as Wayne Fueling Systems. |