Choose your petrol brand

In the days before petrol stations were 'one brand only', many of the independents gave you a choice of petrol brands, using multiple pumps.

This is the Metro Motors petrol station in Adelaide, taken in 1951. The pump brands they offered were Golden Fleece, Plume (Vacuum, later Mobilgas), Ampol, Power Chief (later Caltex), and COR (Commonwealth Oil Refineries).

i wonder if it all came from the one tank😂
cool pic thanks for sharing Phil👍

Must have been something that happened in other cities or states, i'm sure that was never done in Newcastle,very interesting all the same

Apparently the corporations began controlling their outlets from about 1952, when they started becoming 'branded' outlets.

Here's another multi-brand station, from Magill (Adelaide), around 1950.

What about nice clean amoco fuel?

OK Rose, since you asked nicely...

Nice pics Phil. XM and a Morrie cab too.

squizy wrote:Nice pics Phil. XM and a Morrie cab too.

It's actually a base model XK 1960.🤓
The upmarket model had chrome trim around the scalloped part of the panel. The XM had a chrome strip down the middle (similar to the type 3's but much wider).😎

Great photos from the days when service stations actually gave you "service"