Gardiner Implement

GARDINER IMPLEMENT CO.

Boone, Iowa
Years of Operation: 1927 - After 1934

Gardiner Implement Co. was the Oliver Chilled Plow dealer in Boone. The dealership is listed as new business in January 1927. In November 1926, the local newspaper had a front page news article announcing Oliver Chilled Plow was opening an assembly plant, distribution center, and retail store in Boone and that Joe Gardiner with Gardiner Implement in Bouton, Iowa had been secured to manage the concern. At this time, it listed 10th and Story Street as the location and later ads list 928 Story Street as Gardiner Implement, which was across the street. On January 28 and 29, 1927 the dealership held Oliver Days and served lunch to over 500 people each day! The business was owned by Joseph Robert Gardiner and his brother Dan Gardiner. In January 1927, Gardiner's first ad as a Hart-Parr tractor dealer appears in the Boone newspaper. Three months after the Oliver merger in April 1929, a newspaper article listed them as a "full line" Oliver dealer offering Hart Parr tractors, Oliver tractor implements, and Red River threshers. During 1930, the dealership advertised and promoted the new Oliver Hart Parr Row Crop tractor and they received a railcar load of them to sell that year. After 1933, no advertisements or listings for the business have been located. Joseph passed away in 1935 at the age of 57. By 1939, the Oliver franchise for Boone was Lincoln Oil Co.