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- 1939 Dodge Airflow Tank Truck - This streamlined tank truck connected local Texaco service stations to a larger national distribution network. Each of America's competing oil companies had a branded fleet of trucks that took gasoline from refineries to its retail service stations. Even independently operated stations had to buy gasoline from a big oil company's refinery. This truck's capacity is 1175 gallons.
- 1938
- Collections - Artifact
1939 Dodge Airflow Tank Truck
This streamlined tank truck connected local Texaco service stations to a larger national distribution network. Each of America's competing oil companies had a branded fleet of trucks that took gasoline from refineries to its retail service stations. Even independently operated stations had to buy gasoline from a big oil company's refinery. This truck's capacity is 1175 gallons.
- Mack Model BX Tank Truck at a Gas Station, January 1934 - Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Mack-built tank trucks like this had separate compartments for gasoline, diesel fuel, lubricants, and other oil and petroleum products. The delivery trucks transported these products from distributors to gas stations.
- January 01, 1934
- Collections - Artifact
Mack Model BX Tank Truck at a Gas Station, January 1934
Founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1900, Mack Brothers Company relocated to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1905 and adopted the name Mack Trucks in 1922. Mack-built tank trucks like this had separate compartments for gasoline, diesel fuel, lubricants, and other oil and petroleum products. The delivery trucks transported these products from distributors to gas stations.
- Staroline Motor Oil Service Station, Tank Truck and Workers, circa 1925 - At first, motorists had to buy gasoline at grocery or hardware stores. But by the 1920s, service and repair stations had become a fixture of American roadsides and cityscapes. Here, a White Star Refining Company tank truck delivers gasoline to one of its stations. Station customers would also have been able to purchases the Detroit-based company's motor oil.
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
Staroline Motor Oil Service Station, Tank Truck and Workers, circa 1925
At first, motorists had to buy gasoline at grocery or hardware stores. But by the 1920s, service and repair stations had become a fixture of American roadsides and cityscapes. Here, a White Star Refining Company tank truck delivers gasoline to one of its stations. Station customers would also have been able to purchases the Detroit-based company's motor oil.