The Hayes-Anderson Compagny
built its first truck for the B.C. logging industry in 1922. Over time,
its successors designed and produced many other trucks and buses but the
logging truck had always been the backbone of the compagny. Paccar took
over the firm in 1975, but the last truck built before the change is
still on the road.
Today, Steve Drybrough of Port Alberni, B.C., drives the Hayes
HDX 45-115 logging truck purchased new by MacMillan Bloedel in 1975.
Moving worry-free over treacherous mountain roads, he looks down on the
clouds from the cab of his «Angel's Playmate», safe and
comfortable. Angel's Playmate, the last truck ever produced by Western
Hayes Trucks Ltd., was completed in 1975 for MacMillan Bloedel.
Mr. Drybrough has been its only driver.
