Macmillan Oil Ad and Poster Collection: Macmillan Oil Company, MOCA, has been serving the Eastern Pennsylvania and Northern New Jersey area since 1937. (Macmillan Oil Company)
Macmillan Oil Ad and Poster Collection:
1940’s Ads and Posters:
1947 ‘Don’t sell me… just tell me – ‘I Use Macmillan In My Car!’
1948 ‘Me…. I use Macmillan Oil in my own car…
1948 ‘Yes, I use Macmillan Oil in my own car’
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1954 An Elephant Goes to School! Got a Ping Problem? MacMillan Ring-Free Oil
British American Oil Ad and Poster Collection: The British American Oil Company Limited was a Canadian integrated petroleum company that operated between 1906 and 1969. British American was founded in Toronto in 1906 by Albert Leroy Ellsworth (1876–1950). (Wikipedia)
British American Oil Ad and Poster Collection:
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1950 B-A 88 and 98 gasoline. Power, Economy, Service. The British American Oil Company Limited
Some interesting British American Oil related links:
Gulf Oil Ad and Poster Collection: Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the Mellon family fortune; both Gulf and Mellon Financial had their headquarters in Pittsburgh. (Wikipedia)
Gulf Oil Ad and Poster Collection:
1930’s Ads and Posters:
1935 A Place in the Sky. Gulf Refining Company
1939 The Case of the Alabama Gypsy. Gulfpride Oil. Gulf
1939 The Case of the Hollywood Physicist. Gulf. Gulfpride Oil
1940’s Ads and Posters:
1940 The Case of the Rolling Grocery. Gulfpride Oil
1945 ‘I can’t afford to let my car wear out, so I use Gulfpride’. Gulf
1946 ‘The best motor oil’ I’ve found that Gulfpride’s far and away the best’ Gulf
1946 ‘Hot weather is plenty tough on cars … that’s why I changed to Gulfpride. Gulf
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1950 Congratulations to Capital Airlines for new Constellations luxury. Gulf
1951 Beat Summer Heat! Gulf summer-grade No-Nox
1951 Gulf Summer-Grade No-Nox Gasoline
1951 ‘Old-time Longhorn Roundup.’ Gulf dealers have what’s good for your car
1952 Before your trip, here’s a doubly good tip. For the life of your car Go Gulf
1952 Change now to new Gulfpride H.D. Gulf
1952 It could be you! Gulf Aviation Products
1955 Why pay for ‘Shrinking Horsepower’- Gulfpride H.D. Select Gulf
1956 Don’t be buffaloed by ‘shrinking horsepower’ New Gulfpride H.D. Select. Gulf
1956 Don’t be saddled with ‘shrinking horsepower’ Gulf New Gulfpride
1959 Culf cares
1959 A company can’t wiggle finger and expect people, like marionettes to dance a jig over its products. Gulf
1959 Consider The Cobweb. Gulf Oil Corporation
1959 Contended is what, because we are not, we hope our customers are. Gulf Oil Corporation
1959 Good sight on a dark night. Gulf Oil Corporation
1959 He’ll use 804 gallons of oil this year! Gulf Oil Corporation
1959 Keeping on your toes is still the best insurance against being caught flat-footed. Gulf
1959 Often, good driving starts here. More often, it starts here. Gulf Oil Corporation
1959 The only way a company can keep on succeeding as the years go by is to keep adjusting its vision to changing needs. Gulf
1959 There never will be a wish that can substitute for work in serving your needs. Gulf Oil Corporation
1960’s Ads and Posters:
1960 A lady doesn’t go far there days without certain basic equipment. Gulf
1960 A Whale Of A Lot… Of What. Gulf Oil Corporation
1960 Find The Needle. Gulf Oil Corporation
1960 Most Everybody is happy with Gulf products except our research people
1960 The best way on oil company can talk to its customers is through its product. Gulf Oil Corporation
1963 Best Best Best. Gulf
1963 Charge it. Gulf
1963 This is Gulf’s best motor oil. 1963 This is Gulf’s best motor oil.
1963 All this (and three great gasolines, too.) Gulf Care Makes Your Car Run Better
1965 300 miles from home, $10 in cash, the motel bill to pay… and the Bigleys can sleep. Gulf
1965 Taking a trip. Don’t forget to write us. Before you take it. Gulf
1965 What’s my job, Gulf Oil Corporation
1965 When the Woodruffs go on a trip, they take along everything except a lot of cash. Gulf
1968 A travel agency with pumps. Gulf
1968 Can Am. Denny Hulme and Gulfpride Formula G take championship with Las Vegas win
1968 Le Mans. World Manufacturers Championship goes to Ford and Gulfpride Formula G
1968 You just won a new motor oil. Gulfpride Formula G. Gulf
1970’s Ads and Posters:
1975 See how you run. Gulf
1980’s Ads and Posters:
1981 ‘This may be the only computer center where one of the job hazards is seasickness. Gulf
Citgo Ad and Poster Collection: Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo) is a Venezuelan-owned American refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company has its American headquarters in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas. (Wikipedia)
Citgo Ad and Poster Collection:
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1952 On Safari with the Big-Game Hunters. Cities Service
STP Ad and Poster Collection: STP is an American brand and trade name for automotive aftermarket products, especially lubricants such as motor oil and motor oil additives. The name began as an abbreviation of Scientifically Treated Petroleum. The brand is owned by Energizer Holdings, which acquired STP in November 2018. (Wikipedia)
STP Ad and Poster Collection:
1960’s Ads and Posters:
1965 STP … who uses it
1967 Non-Friction Best Seller. The racer’s edge. STP
1967 Youth Serum. Fee your new baby the formula that keeps it running young. STP
1967 Stop Running A Fewer. The racer’s edge. STP
1967 Why? Because. The racer’s edge. STP
1980’s Ads and Posters:
1980 All Foam. No Film. STP Foaming Engine Degreaser
1980 Good enough to run 15,000 miles. STP Motor Oil
1981 STP’s New Son Of A Gun with Sunscreen an Exclusive Formula
Caltex Ad and Poster Collection: Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron. (Wikipedia)
Caltex Ad and Poster Collection:
1960’s Ads and Posters:
1961 Modern Or Classic. Caltex Serves You Better
1962 New Or Old Car… Caltex Serves You Better
1962 Old Pet Or Newest Yet. Caltex Serves You Better
1962 Jag lag? Easily fixed. It needs what Cal-Tune does for top performance. Caltex
1963 You’re never far from the Caltex star
1964 Satisfying the fishing industry’s appetite for oil… Caltex
1964 Satisfying today’s appetite for new and better motor fuels. Caltex
1966 fuel systems go, power systems go, all systems go with Caltex Astron
1966 Satisfying agriculture’s appetite for oil… Caltex
1970’s Ads and Posters:
1970 Caltex Diagnostic Service puts back the missing performance
Amoco Ad and Poster Collection: Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company (Indiana), is a global chemical and oil company that was founded in 1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana, United States.
It later absorbed the American Oil Company, founded in Baltimore in 1910 and incorporated in 1922 by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob. Amoco merged with British Petroleum in December 1998, forming BP Amoco (Wikipedia)
Amoco Ad and Poster Collection:
1940’s Ads and Posters:
1940’s Amoco Tires. Proved better!
1940’s Genuine Amoco. Welcomed – With Open Arms
1940’s Great Things Are Coming! American Amoco Gas
1940’s Here. Mister! Amoco Service
1940’s In Good Hands! Amoco. Time To Change Lubricants
1940’s More bad news for the Axis! Our new Fluid Catalyst Cracking Unit. Amoco
1940’s Now Amoco Tires. A Great Name On The Road
1940’s Permalube Motor Oil. Amoco. Double Feature Cleans As It Lubricates!
1940’s Put it up to Me! Amoco Service
1940’s Service! Amoco
1940’s Spring. Change Your Lubricants! Amoco
1940’s Today – Tomorrow. Amoco
1940’s ‘You come first Uncle Sam’ Amoco. American Oil Company
1941 In the Nations Service. Amoco. 1942
1943 Happy Landing 1944. Amoco
1943 Amoco. Uncle Sam rides First
1943 Happy Landing 1944 Amoco
1943 Speed The Victory. Amoco. American Oil Company
1944 Happy Landing 1945. Amoco
1945 Still going strong! Amoco Service
1946 Amoco. A Real Happy New Year
1946 Hop in Neighbor! American Oil Company. Amoco
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1950 Get An Amoco Check-Up Today
1950 Make it Amoco all the way. Gas Oil Spark plugs Tires
1950 Strength Amoco for the long pull
1950 there’s nothing like Amoco Gas
1950 To help you save your car. Permalube Amoco Oil
1950’s Best of the ‘Reculars’ American Gas
1950’s Gas Tires A Great Name On The Road Amoco
1950’s Peace – may it ring out all over the world! Amoco
1952 Best to you American Amoco Gas
1952 The Sioux should see Iowa now! Standard Oil Company (Indiana) = Amoco
1952 When they ‘set down’ at Grand Rapids… Standard Oil Company (Indiana) = Amoco
BP Ad and Poster Collection: BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised bp) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas “supermajors” and one of the world’s largest companies measured by revenues and profits. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and extraction, refining, distribution and marketing, power generation, and trading. (Wikipedia)
BP Ad and Poster Collection:
1930’s Ads and Posters:
1933 BP Ethyl Anti-Knock Controls Horse-Power
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1953 BP Energol For the Engine’s Best
1960’s Ads and Posters:
1963 Carvair over Geneva. Fast flying Air Ferries … fast fuelling Air BP
1964 Before the holiday trip, oil change with BP Longlife
1966 Air BP fuels CSA at Athens
1970’s Ads and Posters:
1970 BP do things Alaska Style
1970 The pump that broke the ice. BP do things Alaska style
1970 The shop that came in from the cold. BP do things Alaska style
1977 BP VF7. Winner of the Vandervell Formula 3 championship
Esso Ad and Poster Collection: Esso is an international trade name for ExxonMobil and its related companies. The name is derived from the initials of the pre-1911 Standard Oil, and as such became the focus of much litigation and regulatory restriction in the United States. In 1972, it was largely replaced in the U.S. by the Exxon brand after it bought Humble Oil, while Esso remained widely used elsewhere. In most of the world, the Esso brand and the Mobil brand are the primary brand names of ExxonMobil, with the Exxon brand name still in use only in the United States alongside Mobil. (Wikipedia) (Wikipedia)
Esso Ad and Poster Collection:
1930’s Ads and Posters:
1935 Esso. Supplies Everywhere
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1950 ‘Dixie’ Hospitality Keeps ‘Em Flying At Memphis! Esso
1951 Esso. A Good Sign to Fly to…
1952 Businessmen’s air force… Esso Aviation Products
1952 Esso. A Good Sign to Fly to…
1952 of All the world’s International Airlines 7 out of 10 use Esso Aviation Products
1953 tune your Omni to… Dependable Esso Aviation Products!
1956 Enjay Butyl. Fabulous rubber in today’s new cars
1956 Flying In New England… It’s always a short hop to Esso
1955 super-durable Enjay Butyl protects ’55 cars in over 100 places
1956 Esso Aviation Turbo Oil 35
1958 Esso Research works wonders with oil. Whirling wonder of the modern kitchen
1960’s Ads and Posters:
1960 Meet Happy! (He’s The Nicest Thing That Ever Happened To Your Car). Esso Standard
1961 Each Second Humble Proves Enough Energy To Light All America’s Christmas Trees. Esso
1963 Everything that moves! Esso
1965 Put A Tiger In Your Tank! ‘Only Siren In The County That Roars’ Humble. Esso
1965 Put A Tiger In Your Tank! Makes Even ‘23’s Skiddoo! Humble & Esso
1966 The research that puts a Tiger in your tank… goes deeper than you’d think. Enco. Humble
1970’s Ads and Posters:
1970 The Esso Bicycle. A bright new answer to an old problem even the New Europeans have to face. Esso
1971 Esso. 1906 Reo Depot Wagon. Great Moments In Early American Motoring
1977 The exhibit you’ve been waiting for since 1325 B.C. Treasures Of Tutankhamun. Exxon
1980’s Ads and Posters:
1981 We’re Exxon. We’re Joan Williams, bringing a dying oil field back to life
Pennzoil Ad and Poster Collection: Pennzoil is an American motor oil brand currently owned by Shell plc. The former Pennzoil Company had been established in 1913 in Pennsylvania, being active in business as an independent firm until it was acquired by Shell in 2002, becoming a brand of the conglomerate. (Wikipedia)
Pennzoil Ad and Poster Collection:
1930’s Ads and Posters:
1936 Life’s At Stake. You can trust New Pennzoil to protect your motor
1936 Under Control at 200 miles an hour through the night. Pennzoil
1937 Why is your car like United’s New Mainliners? World’s Fastest Long Distance Air Service Uses Pennzoil!
1940’s Ads and Posters:
1940 Tune Up For Spring! Pennzoil. Sound this Z
1946 What a difference when you tune in the ‘Z’. Pennzoil
1950’s Ads and Posters:
1952 Don’t Let Added Quarts Torment You… Pennzoil
1956 Sound your Z… make it Easy On Oil For Keeps. Pennzoil
1970’s Ads and Posters:
1977 The National Champion asks for Pennzoil
1977. The between tune-ups, Gumout tune-up. Pennzoil
1980’s Ads and Posters:
1981 Pennzoil. For Cars Like Johnny’s . And Betty’s. And Yours
