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PostPosted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:40 am    Post subject: Independant Service Station. Reply with quote

Prior to and into the 1950's in Australia, many service stations were 'independant' and advertised themselves as such. They were 'Independant' in that they were not tied to any one petrol distributor, and therefore often sold several different brands.

Here is a photograph of Footscray Motors, in a suburb of Melbourne, on the (then) main road to Geelong and Ballarat. Notice that they sell Plume, Shell, Atlantic, C.O.R (Plus), and Texaco petrol.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great photo Dane.

I wonder where the tanks were? There's no sign of manhole covers in the picture. Nice tall oil bottles.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've not seen a star-shaped pump globe before either, cracking pic Smile

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 2:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those oil bottles were supplied by Castrol in this country too, in pints and quarts. I used to have to fill them from the bulk cabinet when I was a boy.
Although Weights and Measures used to check the petorl pumps regularly, they never bothered with the oil pumps or the bottles.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had two of those bottles that came with my first car - fitted nicely in the under-bonnet tool box. Hand-crank refilled every few weeks at the local Lubritorium - now there's a word one doesn't hear very often.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Such a shame these independants are all but gone these days.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

emmerson wrote:
Those oil bottles were supplied by Castrol in this country too, in pints and quarts. I used to have to fill them from the bulk cabinet when I was a boy.
Although Weights and Measures used to check the petorl pumps regularly, they never bothered with the oil pumps or the bottles.


In the UK. as long as the contents of the bottles were sold "by the bottle" and not as "pints" or "quarts" The Weights and Measures people were not involved.
In general the oil sold from cabinets was measured in checked and stamped oil cans. The cabinet pumps were not calibrated.
Jim - who also filled the bottles of Castrol and Shell.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jim, I suspect that you and I are of an age, and with very similar experiences. If ever we were to meet, we'd talk for ever!
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