What year did Winchester buy the Western Ammunition Company and start using the Winchester-Western logo??

I am not sure but I will have to do some research for you on that.

Winchester never owned Western Cartridge Company or Winchester Western. Back in 1931 the Olin family bought Winchester at a bankruptcy hearing. The Olin family had purchased many smaller companies to protect itself from large competition. They bought a primer co., a brass co., a paper co., Western Powder Co. The Olin family made a fortune during WW! selling ammunition and blasting powder and again during WW2. Two companies both started in 1989 merged to become the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation in 1954. Through expansion and acquisition they grew and are now known as the Olin Corporation.
John Olin being the owner of Winchester and Western Cartridge Company (and a lover of firearms) merger the two into the Winchester Western Co. and used their Logo on both.
I worked in the New Haven plant in 1964 and 1965 when they attempted to compete with both the high end European and Low end firearms and reduced the hand fitted quality to be price competitive. Over time the hard earned reputation for high quality rifles and shotguns was lost and sales declined.
Olin sold the operation to the remaining workers and it became the US Repeating Arms Company and they used the logo under contract with John Olin.
On January 16, 2006 the remaining 250 workers in the recent new plant in the Industrial Park announced they were closing the New Haven plant which had been producing rifles and shotguns for 140 years.
On August 15th Olin Corp. announced that under a licensing agreement with Miroku Corp. of Japan, three of it famous pre 1900 rifles would be manufactured in Japan and imported back to the US through Browning which was owned by FM Corporation in Japan.
In 2008 Fabrique Nationale announced that it would produce Model 70 rifles at its plant in Columbia, SC. In 2010 Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal (FN) resumed production of the Winchester model 1894 and the evolution of the Winchester 1300, now called the Winchester SXP.
So.... In 1931 Western Cartridge bought the bankrupt Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which had been founded in 1866 not the other way around.

Information was found searching Wilkipedia.

Pete K.

Nice history lesson Pete...thanks !!

Very interesting . Thanks !