Shaelyn Washburn

Darley tops $1 Billion in Defense sales.

Darley Defense earns a spot among the top 50 defense contractors in the US.

Darley is awarded the LE600 contract with the US Marine Corps.

Darley is awarded major TLSP Government contracts to supply equipment to DoD customers and creates a new Defense division.

Darley acquires Ohler Pump Company in Janesville, Iowa.

Darley awarded the USCG P6 pump contract.

Darley partners with ProPoly Inc to start a new company, PolyBilt LLC, to make truck products and bodies.

Darley awarded the P100 pump contract with their portable pumps on every US Navy ship.

Fire apparatus sales become the largest segment of Darley’s business. Equipment sales also grow and the company’s catalogs are in virtually every firehouse in America. Catalogs also reach foreign markets.

Darley receives the Army/Navy E Award for Supply Chain excellence during WWII.

W.S. hires Peter Yates who develops a Darley pump.

W.S. meets with Henry Ford to become a Ford sales agent and starts taking orders to ship Darley Fire Trucks built on Ford chassis with Barton pumps.

The catalog features a complete line of firefighting, police and municipal equipment.

William Stuart Darley, a 31-year old self-educated inventor born in 1877, leaves his job to create a new Chicago catalog company, W.S. Darley, to sell his inventions and other equipment to municipalities.

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