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Wallsend-on-Tyne - Shipbuilding and the BP Tanker British Hazel in dock. Date: 1963
Invention of the Cube Car. This box-like car, designed by French-Vietnamese designer and engineer Quasar Kahn, was produced in limited numbers between 1967
GLC-LFB - Dual purpose pump fire engineThe GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade
Terminal Building, Cork Airport, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s
1st Petrol Fire-EngineA combination fire-fighting engine, with chemical fire extinguishing apparatus and a fire-escape ladder. This model was the first petrol motor fire-engine in the world
National petrol advert for the National benzole mixture which gives more miles per gallon
Advert for Pratts original spirit (petrol), 1925, London Date: 1925
Scene at a petrol station, with an attendant filling up a car
Refuelling in a MiniThe modern female petrol pump operator, refuelling a car in her mini skirt
Main Street, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. Date: circa 1925
Advertisement for Pratts petrol and motor oilsAdvertisement for Pratts high test petrol and motor oils, the essence of refinement. Date: circa 1930s
Enamel sign for MobiloilA fine enamel sign advertising Mobiloil, featuring the winged horse Pegasus, the company emblem and logo of Mobil. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*
Advertisement for Redex Engine treatmentA tin/alloy sign advertising Redex engine treatment which according to this advertisement - makes your car faster, smoother and cheaper to run. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*
Observed of all observers by Alfred LeeteThe Chauffeur of a coal-gas-driven car (to a gathering crowd): Wot are you anging around cre for? The Crowd: Please, Mister, we se waiting for the balloon to go up
Street scene in Corfe Castle, DorsetStreet scene in the picturesque village of Corfe Castle, Dorset, with the Purbeck Garage on the left. Date: 20th century
Turriff-Burden advertisement - Iraq oil pipelinesAdvertisement for Turriff-Burden Ltd of Brentford, UK, who supplied 315 miles of pipeline for the Iraq Petroleum Company in the 1960s. Date: 1961
Man on Road PhotoWhere is he going ? Is there a bus strike ? Is he composing verses in his head or elaborating philosophical concepts ? Or has his car run out of petrol ? 1950s
Poster advertising BenzolePoster advertising National Benzole Mixture, giving more miles per gallon
Redex Petrol AdditiveA tin/alloy sign advertising Redex petrol additive which makes the engine BETTER. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*
Motor Shell Oil Advertisement. Date: 1926
1914 Estate Carriage, 15 horse power, Hon. Patrick Lindsay Date: 1958
Old Baptist Church - Black and white lantern slide. Old church converted to petrol station.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900
American Roadside Gas Station and BarbershopAmerican Roadside Gas Station, Hardings United Purity Stores and Barbershop Date: 1946
LCC-LFB Dennis petrol pumpSupplied by Dennis of Guildford, Surrey, the latest in the range of petrol driven pumps supplied to the London Fire Brigade
Ms Napier (bearded) besides F Edge in the four cylinder Napier racing car Date: 1902
Fair / Car Ride, Kings LynA petrol car ride (owned by F Thompson), Kings Lynn (cars manufactured by R E Chambers Co. USA)
Australian Aerial Services, Camooweal to Daly Waters, Australia, pilot Captain Frank Neale with Aboriginal boys and Shell petrol cans - real photograph Feb 1930 Date: 1930
Pratt's High Test Fuel - Advertisement for Pratt's High Test petrol depicts a woman at the steering wheel, goggles at the ready. Artist: Albert Bailey. Date: 1926
WW1 oil and petrol, Shell Motor Spirit, Best of Allies, Always in the Front Date: circa 1915
WW2 - Cyclists After Petrol RestrictionsA photograph of some soldiers riding bicycles after petrol restrictions, relative to a true to life novel, Seven Pilots written by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves. Date: 1942
Shell Special Petrol - Shell Ltd. Date: 1933
Advert, Bowser, the Premier Petrol Pump Date: 1927
Horse and cart and motorcar driving towards each other. The motorcar had only just started to become a popular mode of transport. Date: 1912
Poster, Motricine petrol for cars Date: circa 1900
Advert, The Bath Garage & Auto-Car Co, Monmouth Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath. Date: 1902
Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol stationAn Enfield 8000 Electric Car at a petrol station, where a woman holds out an electric plug to the puzzled pump attendant. The battery-operated city car was manufactured between 1973 and 1977
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress
Brown's Service, Baker, Shoshone, California, USABrown's Service and Cafe on the Death Valley turnoff, Baker, Shoshone, California, USA. Date: circa 1940
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Shell petrol boycottA group of protesters stand outside a Shell garage holding placards calling for people to boycott Shell fuel due to the company's links with South Africa and apartheid. Date: c. 1988
1979 fuel shortageA Texaco petrol station runs out of petrol during a national petrol shortage brought about by a price rise by OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Comic postcard, Chauffeur buying petrol Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Man driving a car with beer bottles Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, couple with wartime rations, WW2 Date: circa 1940s
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - No Basic, we should worryThe Caption is No Basic? We should worry! Basic refers to the basic petrol ration. Petrol was rationed from September 1939 and contiinued until 1950. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - We ll be seeing you somehowThe Caption reads We ll be seeing you somehow. Petrol was severly rationed and only certain professions or trades were allowed to have any. Hence cycling became popular
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Happy BirthdayThe ration book is clearly drawn, and cancelled coupons can be glimpsed. Petrol was the first to be rationed after the war began and eventually practically all commodities were