Was surfing some around today and stumbled onto this rare Red Head 5 gallon oil can. It was a ways away from Calgary but I had a couple of my techs in the area so they stopped in and picked it up for me. I love the large original cans from the 40's and 50's and will clean this one up and display it with a host of other 5 gallon cans I've started to collect. A little history on Read Head Oil of Calgary.
Red Head Oil was a product of Great West Distributors of Calgary, Alberta. The company was bought out by B/A in 1958. B/A acquired a major interest in Anglo-Canadian Oils Limited. With Anglo-Canadian, Royalite, Purity 99, and Red Head, B/A continued to market products under these names without the general public knowing that B/A owned these companies. B/A now had over 9,300 service stations and various other outlets under these 5 brand names and accounted for 25% of all the service stations in Canada. B/A was reported to be the second largest oil company in Canada, ranking behind Imperial Oil.
Last edited by GasCan; Mon Jul 30 2012 03:24 PM.