A magazine advertisement from 1896 shows one of the Crane model hydrants photographed on this page. What we don't know yet is the span of years that Crane made and sold hydrants of their own design. Crane Company catalogs from the early 1900s list hydrants -- as well as fire hose, standpipes, and siamese connections -- all sold under the Crane name. But by this point in time we believe Crane was merely selling the hydrants of other makers, as seen in this 1926 Crane Company catalog page. That hydrant was a carbon copy of the National hydrant made by American Foundry and Mfg. Co. of St. Louis, Missouri. A 1924 Canadian catalog with the imprint --- Crane Limited CRANE VALVES, FITTINGS, PIPING, PLUMBING, HEATING, MILL GOODS, TOOLS ETC.: CATALOGUE NO. 140 Ottawa, Ontario --- documents that the company was selling the Eclipse line of fire hydrants, also produced in St. Louis by Kupferle Foundry.

However, Crane once again entered the hydrant business when they purchased Chapman Valve Mfg. Co. in 1959. Crane produced the Chapman Valve List 90 model hydrant into the 1960s.