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 Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 09:09 AM |
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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).
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 11:03 AM |
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i wonder if it all came from the one tank
cool pic thanks for sharing Phil
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 11:45 AM |
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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
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 12:27 PM |
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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.
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 12:31 PM |
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What about nice clean amoco fuel?
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Phil74Camper
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 12:36 PM |
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OK Rose, since you asked nicely...
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| posted on January 7th, 2009 at 01:20 PM |
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Nice pics Phil. XM and a Morrie cab too.
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| posted on January 11th, 2009 at 10:23 PM |
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Nice pics Phil. XM and a Morrie cab too.
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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).
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| posted on January 12th, 2009 at 04:19 AM |
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Great photos from the days when service stations actually gave you "service"
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