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<p>[QUOTE="Huntingtreasure, post: 367607, member: 6868"]<i>Shotwell Pump & Tank Company </i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Boston, Massachusetts</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Indianapolis, Indiana</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Not a great deal is known about the Shotwell Pump Company. They first advertised a pump in 1917 using an Indianapolis address. By 1925 the company now listed Boston first and Indianapolis second. Shotwell advertised that their pumps were ball bearing pumps. In 1928, Shotwell and the Bennett Pump Company were purchased by Service Station Equipment Company Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, and merged, along with ECO Tireflators, into the Bennett Pump Company. This put Bennett in the gas pump business. Bennett first advertised their pumps as Shotwell-Bennett pumps, but the Shotwell name was dropped before 1930.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Huntingtreasure, post: 367607, member: 6868"][I]Shotwell Pump & Tank Company [/I] [B]Boston, Massachusetts[/B] [B]Indianapolis, Indiana[/B] [B]Not a great deal is known about the Shotwell Pump Company. They first advertised a pump in 1917 using an Indianapolis address. By 1925 the company now listed Boston first and Indianapolis second. Shotwell advertised that their pumps were ball bearing pumps. In 1928, Shotwell and the Bennett Pump Company were purchased by Service Station Equipment Company Ltd., of Toronto, Canada, and merged, along with ECO Tireflators, into the Bennett Pump Company. This put Bennett in the gas pump business. Bennett first advertised their pumps as Shotwell-Bennett pumps, but the Shotwell name was dropped before 1930.[/B][/QUOTE]
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