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Posted By: s932 COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 01:00 PM
COTM Jan 2014 is Kerr-McGee/Deep Rock and their affiliates which include:
Kermac of Oklahoma City, OK acquired 1945
Triangle Refineries Houston,Tx acquired 1957
Southport Oil Corporation Houston,Tx 
Mileage Mart Illinois 1959
Trackside Service Stations Gulfport,Ms 1962
Peoples Oil Company Nashville,Tn 1959
Wallace and Walco Atlanta,Ga 
Mutual Oil Company Birmingham,Al 1985
Golden Rule St.Louis
Sparky-Triangle Brand operating in Alabama
Vaught Oil Company Flora,Il early 1960's
Power Oil Company Macon,Ga 1962
United Oil Company Cape Giradeau,Mo 
Imperial Oil Sommerset,Ky
Tan-T-Kar Stations Birmingham,Al.
Coast Oil Company Shreveport,La
Hiotane 
Kerr-McGee was founded by Robert S. Kerr and others in the Oklahoma City oil fields of Anderson-McGee Drilling in 1929. During the early years they operated a single gas station branded as Phillips 66 which closed during the gas rationing days of WWII. Prior to WWII Phillips geologists Dean McGee joined the company. In 1946 the corporate name was changed to Kerr-McGee. It was also the year that the company entered the retail market having bought Okalhoma City based Harrell Brothers, Yellow Cab gasoline trademark, and replaced it by the KerMac brand. In 1955 Deep Rock Oil Company was purchased. Deep Rock had been around since 1913. At the time of the merger Deep Rock brand appeared on over 1000 stations in 16 Mid-Continetal states. 1957 K-M acquired Triangle Refineries a primarily wholesale operation founded in Abbottsford,WI. in 1937. About this time K-M also bought out Knox Industries of Texas. The Knox brand survived into the 1960's. Thru Triangle KerMac was able to acquire several private brands including Peoples Oil and Milage Mart in 1959; Trackside and Wallace in 1962 along with Power Oil Company, Coast Oil Company and Tan-Kar. The K-M brand as a stand alone first appeared in Oklahoma City in 1965. K-M brand and logo eventually replaced Deep Rock and continues in use today.
This is a very brief histoy of K-M/Deep Rock and their affiliates.
Thanks to Phoenix who was COTM in 2003 and wrote the above.
Post them if you got them
Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 01:03 PM




I don't have any deep rock stuff but I do have some of the affiliates.
Posted By: puregas Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 03:46 PM
Well, Shawn beat me to the Hiotane. Here are some cans. The Hiolube is Gulfport Oil Corporation, but this one is from Birmingham Alabama. Peoples is Nashville. Peoples cans are hard to find. Do see quite a few of their two gallon cans. Tan-Kar cans are extremely hard to find.

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Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 04:42 PM
I love the hiolube can I finally have one bought that I'm picking up at Columbia can't wait
Posted By: K W FRITH Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 05:34 PM
Well I only have this one early Deep Rock sign. Its about 2 foot square and is single sided tin.

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Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 07:41 PM
Here is a deep rock globe I took a picture of last year at the Columbia show
Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 07:44 PM
Here is a can I saw at CTO last year

Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 07:47 PM
Couple globes Sanford owns

Only Deep Rock item I have. 5 Quart Can.

Posted By: hawkike Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 09:31 PM
The pump signs are as i recall from the 40's.Mac Godsey was the DEEP ROCK "tank wagon" man!

smile

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Posted By: hawkike Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 09:36 PM
Some one dated this on the back--1937.

smile

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Posted By: Tbirdgas Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 09:43 PM
Believe these are Deep Rock



Posted By: Coops 427 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 01 2014 11:21 PM
A few of my Deep Rock items:




Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 12:31 AM
Coops I said it before about your a38 and I will say it again simply awesome looking pump
Posted By: Jay Leeper Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 01:45 AM
Some quarts

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Posted By: Dave Richey Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 01:52 AM
Formerly owned.

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Minty fresh out of original box.

Posted By: keithia Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 03:35 AM
Here is my Deep Rock A38. Not as nice as Matts' but I still like it.

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Posted By: keithia Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 03:41 AM
Few more.

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Posted By: keithia Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 03:42 AM
More

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Posted By: cig31 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 12:46 PM
Heres another quart.

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Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 10:02 PM
That is a killer qt can chad. Here are some of Sanford's deep rock stuff.



Last globe here is a tough globe to find
Posted By: olddutchgas Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Thu Jan 02 2014 11:21 PM
Here are few globes from Kerr McGee / Deep Rock affiliates.

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Posted By: olddutchgas Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Fri Jan 03 2014 05:01 PM
And a couple of Deep Rock quarts

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Posted By: Tankar Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Fri Jan 03 2014 07:42 PM
I will try to get a few more items pictured.

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Posted By: BryceG Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Fri Jan 03 2014 08:37 PM
i thought this was a neat sign, it was in the December online Matthews auction and went for, what I think was, a good price (unfortunately I was the backup bidder)

Posted By: s932 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Sun Jan 05 2014 11:12 PM
Great start so far let's keep it going
Posted By: Rabbitman Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Mon Jan 06 2014 09:15 PM
Here's some of my stuff.

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Posted By: Rabbitman Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Mon Jan 06 2014 09:17 PM
A couple more. The Triangle porcelain sign is the first half of the sign. The guy I got it from thought the other half said "Refineries" but the jury is still out as to whether or not it was the KM affiliated one. Wish I could find the other half and some history on it....

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Posted By: Tankar Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Sun Jan 12 2014 03:30 PM
D/S tin

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Posted By: Toys4Fun Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Fri Jan 24 2014 05:49 PM
Little story on my couple pieces. Got this pump from a classmates Dad. So he tells me a few months later after I had just got the pump he has something to show me. Here he has the original pump plates for it but does not want to sell them. I keep bugging him then one day I swing by his place and he then tells me he has something else. You guest it the globe. Here he had bought this pump from the original station when it closed. So we make a deal and here it is all back together again. Then this summer I am at an auction with my young daughter and we are looking at boxes on a trailer and I stumble on this thermometer from the same station the pump came from. What are the odds!



My Deep Rock 2-sided sign - 76"H x 57"W

This sign is very similar if not the same type sign hanging at my grandfather's gas station in 1950 seen below.

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A Kerr McGee 3/8 plastic sign I picked up at an auction in OK. I'm sure it is one lens piece of two for a florescent lit sign.

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Posted By: hawkike Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Tue Jan 26 2016 11:58 PM
My Deep Rock plates.

shocked

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Posted By: hawkike Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Wed Jan 27 2016 01:30 AM
Deep Rock--dated 1927 on the back!

shocked

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Here's a few Deep Rock Salt & Pepper shakers

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Posted By: Coops 427 Re: COTM 2014 Kerr-McGee/ Deep Rock and affiliates - Fri Aug 14 2020 02:15 AM
Few cans.

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