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Showing posts with label pre 1930's gas station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pre 1930's gas station. Show all posts

Chevron/Texaco oil company delivery (oldest to relatively newest) and famous customers

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Flat out this has to be the earliest, most basic transport of gas or oil by an oil company.

1910 Mack


Above 1933
C&H Hawaiian Sugar co

Above Barney Oldfield
Amelia Earhart
this is Frank Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in August of 1932, and purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932.
Photos from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
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1st service station in the world 1907, and the 1st drive in service station 1913

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Above the first service station in the world 1907. John McLean of Standard Oil of California in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of oil products.
Above, The first service station in the world that was designed to be a drive in station open its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil.
This is what the typical curbside gas station was like
Images from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
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