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Bolens

How the Port Washington, Wisconsin garden tractor pioneer passed through five owners and became a name without a factory.

Ownership timeline

  1. 1919Harry Bolens starts building garden tractors in Port Washington, Wisconsin
  2. 1941Sold to Automatic Products of Milwaukee
  3. By 1948Part of FMC as the Bolens Products Division
  4. Late 1980sGarden Way, maker of the Troy-Bilt tiller, buys Bolens
  5. 2001Garden Way goes bankrupt; MTD buys the Bolens and Troy-Bilt names
  6. About 2010MTD stops using the Bolens name

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