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Thu Aug 30 2012 06:19 PM
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I picked up a new pump this week. A Tokheim 39 LRA dated 7-49. It started life as a shell employee, with multiple image updates, and several layers of yellow and ended up working for Total. I was power washing it, and to my surprise most of the Total White washed off and gave way to Shell Yellow and Shell Red. As I sprayed the side, the white washed off and revealed a round decal that said "With TCP". I've never seen this decal before. I was wondering was it a Shell decal, or a Total decal, and what is TCP?
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Shell decal, was an additive added to gasoline.
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Dave GILL,
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Do you know what era TCP was used?
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I believe Shell used TCP in the 60s, but it could have been the late 50s.... Shell was advertising TCP/2 by 1970.... I've had this cardboard spinner for a few years now... Would have been in a stand on top of a pump and would have spun in the wind...  Reads SUPER on one side... TCP on the other...... 
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I picked up a new pump this week. A Tokheim 39 LRA dated 7-49. It started life as a shell employee, with multiple image updates, and several layers of yellow and ended up working for Total. I was power washing it, and to my surprise most of the Total White washed off and gave way to Shell Yellow and Shell Red. As I sprayed the side, the white washed off and revealed a round decal that said "With TCP". I've never seen this decal before. I was wondering was it a Shell decal, or a Total decal, and what is TCP?
...let's see some pics of the pump after you got the white off of it...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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T C P , Tricrysl Phosphate . Shell and Conoco engineered this additive as a way of making Tetra- Ethyl leaded gasoline burn cleaner ........... Ed Shaver
see ya on the road folks !
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Two different versions available.
http://www.t-waysgraphics.com/decalsST.htm
Be patience while everything loads - they are towards the bottom of the page.
Later . . .
Jim
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T-way, It's the one on the right that says With TCP.
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Shell Oil commercially introduced tricresyl phosphate as a gasoline additive in 1953. I was buying a pair of Canadian Shell salt and pepper shakers awhile back and the dealer said they were from the 1940s. I did some research and told him that since they advertised TCP on the pump they had to be at least from 1953 or later. Cheers, Don.
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Mike - If you can find a copy of the book "Service Stations Vol. 1 - American Gas Stations, 1922 - 1964" by Mark L. Elmore, it has a bunch of picures of shell stations with different signs and banners advertising TCP. Most are dated early to mid 50's.
Lee
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