PAINTED ROADSIDE ADVERTISEMENTS - index of brands
Fuel and related 2 |
|---|
|
Azur BP Camping Gaz |
Energic & Energol Esso Primagaz |
Shell Solexine |
Texaco Total |
| Eeklo (Belgium); July 1999 | Middelkerke (Belgium); July 1999 | Detail of Middelkerke mural |
|
|
|
|
| BP Motor Spirit is a product of the early 1920s.
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was formed in 1909 after the first oil discovery in Iran. The company became The British Petroleum Company only in 1954. Don't miss the company's site with A Brief History of BP |
The Middelkerke wall features
the BP-logo from the 1930s and 1940s:
the escutcheon is empty and BP
is quoted (detail).
The pump replaces the tin as distribution method and Motor Spirit is now translated into the French essence. As both walls show the name, L'Alliance - Anvers (=Antwerp) was probably responsible for the distribution in Belgium. |
|
| We also have a wall from St-Andries (size=48k) (Brugge, Belgium; VIII.1998) but mirrored. It seems that the pump had to be next to the road. The mural is in a very bad state because the same wall has been used for several other brands and a hotel. |
| Gentbrugge (Belgium), X.1998 | Nivelles (Belgium), III.2000 | -> Hannut (N22, Belgium), V.1996;
pict. T. Dubois | ||
 |
 |
 |
||
| This BP Motor Spirit came to light after the removal of a modern billboard saving it from being blanked out. | BP Motor Spirit - L'Alliance | BP Motor Spirit |
| Hofstade (Belgium), III.2009; pict. Y. Carpentiers |
||||
 |
||||
| BP Motor Spirit and L'Alliance - Anvers |
| St Gaudens (Haute Garonne, France); VI. 1998; pict. A. Guët | Nancy (France); June 1999; pict. A Guët | |||
 |
 |
| ||
| ENERGIC - ENERGOL
essence et huile or petrol and oil Suggestive brand names |
Essence ENERGIC
This wall is showing us that Energic (and Energol) are BP-brands. |
|||
| Illies (France); 16.IV.2001 | ||||
 |
 |
|||
| ENERGIC essence - huile ENERGOL |
Don't miss the Japa coffee ad. |
 |
 |
|
| Rilleux la Pape (N84, France); IX.2003; pict. Ph. Rigault | Rethel (08, France); 26.X.2005; pict. A. Hollard |
| Solexine
Carburant pour moteurs 2 temps The tin says Solexine - VeloSolex et autres moteurs 2 temps or Solexine for Velosolex and other two-stroke engines Solexine is a mix of fuel with some Energol and was first sold during the 1940s. The colours on the tin were reversed in 1958; from then on the text was yellow on green. |
Esso poids lourds - Gas Oil Esso is a brand of the Exxonmobil company. It all started at the end of the 19th century when John D. Rockefeller acquired a diversity of petroleum interests and organized them under the Standard Oil Trust. Two Standard Oil companies were born and florished thanks to a kerosene hungry world. Then follows a long and succesfull history which is covered at the company's website. Notice that in the 1930s one of the S-O companies merges with Vacuum Oil already mentioned in connection with Mobiloil |
| Previous page: | Fuel and related 1
|
|---|---|
| Related: | Lubricants
Transportation |
| Path: Home / Painted roadside advertisements / Fuel and related - BP | e-mail: |
