GARNERING THE CROPS
William Galloway, who died in 1952, recalled in a 1946 interview with the Waterloo Daily Courier that times became very difficult at the end of the First World War. This resulted in the bankruptcy of his tractor business in 1920 and losing his home and farm at Cedar Heights.
Mysteries
He claimed that Garner had still owed $450,000 of his original $1.3m order, though this is hard to believe as surely there must have been cash with order or delivery. It is also unlikely that Galloway would have continued to ship if he wasn’t getting paid. One wonders about insurance on shipments that were sunk at sea by the German navy and also whether Garner tried to reduce his 1916/17 order when he realised that he couldn’t sell enough.
The Maxim connection is another mystery, the suggestion being that in 1919 with military orders finished it gained rights to Baby Galloways. One imagines there were lots of unsold ones around,
