Posted by Clint Dixon [74.206.63.42] on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 17:19:37 :
In Reply to: Civilian Carryall Photo posted by Don in Missouri [69.69.205.226] on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 13:21:52 :
The panel is getting filled up with Stanolind Blue unleaded gasoline - sometimes known generically as "white gas". It was cheap stuff compared to the Solite with Ethyl dispensed from a pump just out of the photo. Solite was the hi-octane gasoline. There would have also been a third pump dispensing Standard Red Crown (also with Ethyl)if the year is actually 1938 as indicated by the license plate.
My neighbor was a Standard Oil of Indiana bulk dealer from the late 1940's through the mid 1970's. He said when they discontinued Blue Crown in 1949(Stanolind Blue became Blue Crown in 1941), that he lost a lot of farmer customers. Many burned Blue Crown in their old Farmall F20 and F30 tractors and they thought that by changing over to fuel containing Tetraethyl Lead, their engines would be ruined.
The pump looks to be a Bowser or a Gilbarco, each of which would be unusual for a Standard station at that time. Most used Wayne model 70's - switching to Martin and Swartz Standard Oil specials by the late 1940's. Also unusual is the Mohawk sign. Mohawk tires were a competitor of Atlas tires that were normally sold at Standard Stations.
The oil bottles would contain Polarine and Iso-Vis motor oil, and maybe even Syntholube - a synthetic oil first available in 1932.
Junior
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