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Oldest Petrol Pumps Still in Operation?
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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 2:51 am    Post subject: Oldest Petrol Pumps Still in Operation? Reply with quote

Am currently in Sequoias National Park in California and came across this pair. The station was not open when we passed but is still in regular use.



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PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2019 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

About 5 years ago , I did see an old petrol pump still in use at the Middleton Pub north west Queensland . I will take a photo if I go passed again . I avoid getting fuel from old tanks that are not used very often .
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Neat photo, the pumps would look great with a Model A or similar parked alongside, with a suitable '30s recovery truck (say) casually parked in the background.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry Rick, the rental company didn't have any Model As available so we had to put up with a Fusion from the same manufacturer.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you Google up Middleton Hotel , Queensland you can see the petrol pump but it is not very clear . There is also a stage coach parked out the front . It was aplace for over night stops and change of horses . [ 4 legged ones ! ]
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can show a Model A, but I don't know if the pump still exists. Photo was taken at Nullarbor Homestead, 1972, part way across the famous Nullarbor Plane in Western Australia. It was about half way across a (then ) 248 mile section of unsealed road. The fuel stop has now been built about a mile to the South as a new road, all sealed, took a slightly different route.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some were just hand pumps , others were electric with an option to hand pump , if the generator had failed .
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