I am able to fill in some details as to the final days of the Tobin Arms manufacturing company of Woodstock,Ontario.On the 15 July 1920, The Eureka Planter Company of Woodstock, purchased the building and assets of the Tobin Arms Company. Eureka was controlled at that time by by A.Little, who was one of the origional share holders of Tobin Arms! The manufacturing machinery at Tobin was sold by Eureka.They retained the Tobin building to increase their manufacturing capacity[ie;They made lawn mowers, small agricultural implements and metal castings] It is believed that they used part of the Tobin building as a pattern shop for their foundries.This is substantiated by the fact that they retained the stock of Tobin,s gun stock blanks in the building presumably for use in pattern making. Kor example on the 18 Feb;1933 they sold G.Crandall six stock blanks for $2.40, ["What a buy!"] This information was abstracted from the ledgers of Eureka Planter.
