The yellow and green colours could wrongly suggest Yacco is from BP. The Total-site states it's their brand.

Castrol was founded in 1899 and for some time also owned the Veedol brand.

Both murals together illustrate very clearly how design adapts to the available space.

Find more Shell on the fuel page.

The shell is the 1930's design!

Once again the familiar approach: lubricant for aircraft couldn't possibly be bad for your car. Other examples are Bret-Oil, Huiles Renault, Frigéavia, Yacco.

A leaflet from the mid 1930s shows that its products were sold in 44 French airports, as well as 4 in French North Africa and 13 elsewhere in Europe (as far away as Warsaw and Wien). It also claims that Air France flew 1 186 000 km and transported 19 959 passengers using Huile Orange. (information I. Byrne)

Bardahl is an American brand established in 1939 by Ole Bardahl, a Norwegian immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1922. He worked hard and in 1939 had enough money to buy a small chemical company. He personally oversaw the operation, supplied racers with oil to try them out, sponsored cars and made his products top sellers shortly after World-War II. Ole died in 1989.

The Cities Service Company was as small-town oil and gas company in the early 1900s. In 1931, the company completed a long-distance natural gas transportation system: a pipe-line from Amarillo (Texas) to Chicago. The brand changed its name to CITGO in 1965 and was purchased by Petroleos de Venezuela in the 1990s.