Petrol Collection (page 3)

New Esso Guide to London Airport - Heathrow. 1965

Culdaff, Inishowen, Co. Donegal - a street scene with people, horse vehicle and petrol pump to the left. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Culdaff). Date: circa early 1900s

Main Street, Fort National (Larbaa Nath Irathen), Algeria
Main Street, Fort National (now Larbaa Nath Irathen), Tizi Ouzou Province, Algeria, with a monument on the left and a large advertisement for Byrrh aperitif. Date: circa 1925

Indian Springs Station, Nevada, USA
Tim Harnedys Indian Springs Station (motel and car service) on the road between Beatty and Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Date: 1939

Shell Petrol Station
Shell filling station, Lund, Scania, Sweden c. 1958. Date: 1958

LCC-LFB Merryweather Hatfield pump at Southwark HQ
A chain-driven Hatfield type pump at LFB Southwark headquarters. Note the connected hard suction hose to the rear mounted pump

A London Fire brigade wheeled ladder escape vehicle
Outside the London County Council boundary, Penge, to the south of London, was one of many fire brigades which had just one fire station covering its geographical area

LCC-LFB Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric turntable ladder
One of two similar turntable ladders (TL) which the London Fire Brigade had in service at this time

Supply dump near Beaurainville, France, WW1
A supply dump behind British lines at Beaurainville, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Enamel sign for Redex Petrol service
A tin/alloy sign for Redex Service, an engine supplement to be added to petrol, sump, gearbox or rear axle to improve the overall performance of a vehicle. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Our True Sporting SPIRIT ? by William Heath Robinson
The Automobilious Dream of a prominent Master of Hounds, on learning that the price of petrol had dropped again. Please note

Pool Petrol Rationed
A postcard making a light- hearted comment on the fact that petrol is rationed and that there are no branded fuels, only POOL petrol

Using a Chainsaw
A man sawing branches off a tree with a petrol chainsaw, with woodchips and sawdust flying everywhere

Early Vulcan Petrol Tanker supplying BP motor fuel. Date: circa 1919

Man in a kilt, filling a van up with petrol. Date: circa 1960s

Traffic on the M5 motorway near Manchester, passing a service station. Date: circa 1960s

Ceil Well, Baku - Azerbaijan - producing Petrol and naphta. Date: circa 1905

Rural scene showing veteran motorcycle combination & cottage
Man on veteran motorcycle & sidecar outside cottages displaying Lyons & Brooke Bond Tea & BP Spirit, circa 1910/15

Veteran 1910 motorcycle & sidecar refuelling at a garage
Veteran 1910 era motorcycle & sidecar combination refuelling at a garage circa 1910

RFA Prestol tanker
RFA (Royal Fleet Auxiliary) Prestol Belgol-class tanker and warship, with coastline (possibly Spain) in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for Pratts petrol 1930
Pratts petrol - the essence of refinement Date: 1930

Newlyn Cornwall 1939
Scene at the harbourside in Newlyn, Cornwall. Date: 1939

Street scene in Tenes, Chief Province, Algeria
Street scene with Hotel Pouzens and Shell petrol pump in Tenes, Chief Province, northern Algeria. Date: circa 1930

Alpenhotel, Fern Pass, Tyrol, Austria
Alpenhotel (Alpine Hotel), Fern Pass, Tyrol, Austria. Date: circa 1930

Poster, Power Ethyl, most powerful petrol on sale. Date: circa 1930s

Great Central Filling Station, Marylebone Road, London
Great Central Filling Station, on the corner of Marylebone Road and Wyndham Street, London, with petrol pumps and garage. circa 1910s

Avenue d Alger, Zeralda, Algiers, Algeria
Rue Nationale, Zeralda, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria, with boys standing in the roadway. Date: circa 1920

Hotel des Arcades, Bainem, Algiers Province, Algeria, with shop, cafe, restaurant and petrol pump. circa 1925

Cartoon, Elephants in armour, WW1
Cartoon, Elephants in armour (Hohenzollern patented system). Showing an elephant in armour, using its trunk to distribute petrol from two barrels which it carries on either side

Young woman with baby near Esso Petrol Station, Eccles
A young woman with her baby, standing near an Esso Petrol Station in Patricroft, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Service station, Wendover, Utah-Nevada, USA
State Line Service Station at Wendover, on the border between Utah and Nevada, USA. Date: 1950s

Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, WW1
Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, during the early stages of the First World War. One of the men (centre) is an Algerian Spahi. Date: 1914

Hut made of petrol tins, American Red Cross nurses, Serbia
A hut made of petrol tins for American Red Cross nurses in Serbia during the First World War. 1918

A gas-bag motor boat
The scarcity of petrol during the First World War saw the introduction of cars and vans powered by gas, with the gas being transported in a huge bag on the roof

Advertisement for Redline super petrol, famous since pre-war days for punch, power and pep. Date: circa early 1940s

Gas bag omnibus in Edinburgh, WW1
An example of a coal gas powered vehicle in Edinburgh - in this case a bus which holds a voluminous rubber bag for the gas on its roof

Petrol Tram Car, Heysham, Lancashire
Petrol Tram Car, Heysham, Morecambe, Lancashire, England. Date: 1912

WW2 Christmas card, wartime restrictions
WW2 Christmas card. Whats in the Post this Morning? Rationing and other wartime restrictions. Date: circa 1942

A Scent Evanescent by Wilmot Lunt - petrol shortages, WW1
CHEMIST: " That, madame, is petrol - our dearest and rarest perfume." Cartoon in The Bystander commenting on the extortionate cost of petrol as it became increasingly scarce on the home

Mr Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette with gas container, WW1
Ex-Prime Minister Herbert Asquiths Wolseley Landaulette motor car equipped with the Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof

Militant Suffragette Crested China Figurine
A porcelain figure of a militant suffragette produced as an item of crested ware with the crest of the city of Exeter. The figure of the woman is finely detailed to illustrate her allegiance to

Scouts at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece
Scouts at work in Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up and humanitarian aid activities

Suffragette Votes for Shell Motor Spirit. A suffragette on a platform, holding a petrol can declares, Votes for women, votes Shell Motor Spirit un-equalled. Date: circa 1909

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Petrol station, Old Brompton Road, London SW7
Brew Brothers petrol station in Old Brompton Road, London SW7, where a fire and explosion occurred in a basement store, 20 July 1957

Coal-gas powered delivery van of the Illustrated London News
An example of coal-gas powered vehicles during the First World War, this example being the delivery van of the Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd

LCC-London Fire Brigade, motorised pump at hose drill
Fire crew in the drill yard of the London Fire Brigade headquarters, Southwark, getting hose lines to work from a motorised fire pump. Date: 1909

Fleets of motorcyles at the outbreak of war
At the start of World War I the petrol-driven motor was used for the first time for haulage of big guns, ammunition wagons, food and baggage trains, Red Cross ambulances

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