I was thinking as a young fella growing up in the Bush, how many different fuel brands that were there.
In my town we had BP, Shell, Caltex, Neptune, Ampol, Amaco, Mobil, Golden Fleece and an old mechanics workshop still had Texaco signs from days gone by.
What did your town have can you remember anymore.
-- Edited by Gundog on Thursday 30th of April 2015 05:10:10 AM
sandsmere said
06:07 AM Apr 30, 2015
Esso.
KJB said
08:17 AM Apr 30, 2015
ALBA
DMaxer said
08:41 AM Apr 30, 2015
Atlantic. There was also one owned by the Trade Unions, it was an independent one, name escapes me. BP was named BP and COR.
Dougwe said
08:50 AM Apr 30, 2015
I always put a nice clean Tiger in my tank.
Never turned me into a Tiger though
KJB said
09:47 AM Apr 30, 2015
COR
WobblyNut said
11:04 AM Apr 30, 2015
still remember ,hand pumping th gallons up into the glass bowl .
either letting it run into your tank , or filling square petrol drums .
off subject.
True story about a pair of those square drums.
I was looking a mattock type tool at th woodheap , I was 8.
Grandpa came over . "Watcha looking at son" , whats this mattock
doing in th woodheap grandpa . Go over to that shed & bring those two
square drums with th lids cut off . brings em back . Now son stand in them.
I did , he gave me the tool & said "Jack , this is an Adz" he showed me how to use it.
Then said "If I ever catch you not using those drums I will kick your r's till your nose bleeds"
on subject.
Them square drums were not only used for petrol. Never got me r's kicked tho.
-- Edited by ithinktomyself on Thursday 30th of April 2015 02:05:28 PM
Radar said
03:06 PM Apr 30, 2015
What about Neptune.
Neptune Racing Team.
Interesting take overs or joining of the companies.
COR, Amoco, Castrol Oils. All under one banner of BP
Then the other interesting one Caltex.
Golden Fleece, Ampol. one name Caltex now.
I worked for Caltex when it had taken over Ampol and started just after the joining with Golden Fleece.
hako said
03:09 PM Apr 30, 2015
Total - they were a French company and their fuel was 1d a gallon cheaper than the rest.
DMaxer said
04:28 PM Apr 30, 2015
That's the one Ithinktomyself.They had a few around Sydney and were discount prices.
Desert Dweller said
05:08 PM Apr 30, 2015
Did anyone collect the Shell cards? We have all the series in albums.
ShortNorth said
09:48 PM Apr 30, 2015
The following is a brief history of different petrol brand names used between the 1940s and 1970s:
Caltex was sold from 1936 onwards, up until 1936 it was sold as Texaco.
Ampol Australian Motorists Petrol Company was formed in 1936 in 1949 it changed its name to Ampol in 1982 Ampol acquired Total, and sold their products under the Ampol name in 1995 Ampol merged with Caltex.
Plume Vacuum Oil Company (and its later ownership) sold its petrol under the Plume name from 1916 to 1954, when it changed the name to Mobilgas.
Mobilgas Vacuum Oil Company merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York in the 1930s to become, Socony Vacuum, later Socony Mobil, and later still Mobil Corporation. It introduced its famous Flying Red Horse logo into the Australian market in 1939.
Neptune the Neptune Oil Company was bought by the Anglo-Dutch Shell Company in 1926, but the Neptune brand petrol, with the famous King Neptune logo, was only sold from 1952-1959, when Shell dropped the name from public sale.
Golden Fleece H.C. Sleigh (pronounced Slee) sold petrol from 1913 to 1981 under the Golden Fleece name in 1981 H.C. Sleigh was bought by Caltex.
Shell Shell was marketed by the Anglo-Dutch Shell Company since the 1920s.
Atlantic/Union Atlantic/Union sold its oil and petrol products from the mid-1920s, by 1962 the name Atlantic was replaced by Esso in 1991, Esso was taken over by Mobil.
COR In 1920, the Commonwealth Government in conjunction with British Petroleum, created the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, which marketed their petrol as COR in 1952 BP bought all remaining shares, and sold both COR and BP together at the same service stations until 1959, when the COR name was dropped.
BP British Petroleum sold petrol, in conjunction with COR from the 1920s, but did not use their own brand BP until 1952, and in 1959, the use of the COR name was discontinued.
Total the French owned Total Oil Products Company established its sale of petrol under the Total name from 1954, until bought by Ampol in 1982.
Notes - The above was some information I compiled some years ago for an article about NSWGR railway petrol tank cars for a modelling group.
-- Edited by ShortNorth on Thursday 30th of April 2015 09:48:44 PM
Another thread prompted this.
I was thinking as a young fella growing up in the Bush, how many different fuel brands that were there.
In my town we had BP, Shell, Caltex, Neptune, Ampol, Amaco, Mobil, Golden Fleece and an old mechanics workshop still had Texaco signs from days gone by.
What did your town have can you remember anymore.
-- Edited by Gundog on Thursday 30th of April 2015 05:10:10 AM
Esso.
ALBA
Atlantic. There was also one owned by the Trade Unions, it was an independent one, name escapes me. BP was named BP and COR.
I always put a nice clean Tiger in my tank.
Never turned me into a Tiger though
COR
still remember ,hand pumping th gallons up into the glass bowl .
either letting it run into your tank , or filling square petrol drums .
off subject.
True story about a pair of those square drums.
I was looking a mattock type tool at th woodheap , I was 8.
Grandpa came over . "Watcha looking at son" , whats this mattock
doing in th woodheap grandpa . Go over to that shed & bring those two
square drums with th lids cut off . brings em back . Now son stand in them.
I did , he gave me the tool & said "Jack , this is an Adz" he showed me how to use it.
Then said "If I ever catch you not using those drums I will kick your r's till your nose bleeds"
on subject.
Them square drums were not only used for petrol. Never got me r's kicked tho.
And COR10 was a whiskey.
Plume, Purpul (spelling?) Radix, Flying A.
If you really want to get into things then try here.
DMaxer ...
ACTU-Solo
Cheers
Ithink
-- Edited by ithinktomyself on Thursday 30th of April 2015 02:05:28 PM
What about Neptune.
Neptune Racing Team.
Interesting take overs or joining of the companies.
COR, Amoco, Castrol Oils. All under one banner of BP
Then the other interesting one Caltex.
Golden Fleece, Ampol. one name Caltex now.
I worked for Caltex when it had taken over Ampol and started just after the joining with Golden Fleece.
That's the one Ithinktomyself.They had a few around Sydney and were discount prices.
The following is a brief history of different petrol brand names used between the 1940s and 1970s:
Caltex was sold from 1936 onwards, up until 1936 it was sold as Texaco.
Ampol Australian Motorists Petrol Company was formed in 1936 in 1949 it changed its name to Ampol in 1982 Ampol acquired Total, and sold their products under the Ampol name in 1995 Ampol merged with Caltex.
Plume Vacuum Oil Company (and its later ownership) sold its petrol under the Plume name from 1916 to 1954, when it changed the name to Mobilgas.
Mobilgas Vacuum Oil Company merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York in the 1930s to become, Socony Vacuum, later Socony Mobil, and later still Mobil Corporation. It introduced its famous Flying Red Horse logo into the Australian market in 1939.
Neptune the Neptune Oil Company was bought by the Anglo-Dutch Shell Company in 1926, but the Neptune brand petrol, with the famous King Neptune logo, was only sold from 1952-1959, when Shell dropped the name from public sale.
Golden Fleece H.C. Sleigh (pronounced Slee) sold petrol from 1913 to 1981 under the Golden Fleece name in 1981 H.C. Sleigh was bought by Caltex.
Shell Shell was marketed by the Anglo-Dutch Shell Company since the 1920s.
Atlantic/Union Atlantic/Union sold its oil and petrol products from the mid-1920s, by 1962 the name Atlantic was replaced by Esso in 1991, Esso was taken over by Mobil.
COR In 1920, the Commonwealth Government in conjunction with British Petroleum, created the Commonwealth Oil Refineries, which marketed their petrol as COR in 1952 BP bought all remaining shares, and sold both COR and BP together at the same service stations until 1959, when the COR name was dropped.
BP British Petroleum sold petrol, in conjunction with COR from the 1920s, but did not use their own brand BP until 1952, and in 1959, the use of the COR name was discontinued.
Total the French owned Total Oil Products Company established its sale of petrol under the Total name from 1954, until bought by Ampol in 1982.
Notes - The above was some information I compiled some years ago for an article about NSWGR railway petrol tank cars for a modelling group.
-- Edited by ShortNorth on Thursday 30th of April 2015 09:48:44 PM