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Chapter VI
Prosperity
and Challenges
1925 1934
Following World War I and prior to the Great
Depression, The Hudson Manufacturing Company
thrived. The next decade would present unique
challenges for the company but new opportunities
would also arise that would help the company continue
its pattern of growth.
The
This picture from the early 1930s showed H. D. Hudson Manufacturing Company
sales representatives hard at work in the field.
decade from 1925 to 1935 was a time of growth and
expansion for The Hudson Manufacturing Company, but it
also represented a change in the nature of the business,
with manufacturing becoming its primary objective. Further
acquisitions of smaller manufacturers brought additional
items to complement the company’s lines; they provided
improved production facilities, and enabled the company
to expand its occupancy of the growing markets for barn
equipment, sheet metal products, poultry equipment,
pumps and water systems and sprayers and dusters.
In 1925, C.A. Libbey Company of Oshkosh,Wis., another
small manufacturer of barn equipment, was purchased, and
Hudson issued Catalog G, which featured farm equipment,
repairs and supplies, and presented a full line of Hudson-made
products for the farm.
In 1926, the Davis-Hanson Pump Company, Oshkosh,Wis.,
manufacturers of pumps and water systems, was purchased and
Hudson issued Booklet 146, Hudson Sprayers and Dusters.
This booklet showed, for the first time, a compression sprayer
with an extension tube from the valve to the nozzle. It included
the irrefutable statement, “The Best Guarantee of any Product
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