Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion What's the scoop with the Scottie?

Does anyone have any info on the Scottish
Terriers that appear in the Texaco and
Champion spark plug ads?

Don -

I know that The Texas Company used the Scotties for several years before they adopted the Dalmation pups (in keeping with FIRE-CHIEF). I don't know if theirs were litter-mates to the others or not!

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Jim Hinds
Columbus, Indiana

Jim
Do you know if they ever used the Scottie
logo on any pumps?
Thanks
Don

No, they didn't, Don. Must have been some other company.

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Jim Hinds
Columbus, Indiana

Hey Don , the only company that i know that put a dog on a pump was wayne , they used the german police dog on there pump faces .


[This message has been edited by Dwaine Buck (edited 02-12-2003).]

and HUSKY had a mutt on their pump plates..

That is not a police dog it is "THE WATCHDOG of HONEST MEASURE", i have that pump with porcelain faces, call it my dog pump, Also that is one of the only electric faces made that has left and rights which dont interchange, will try to send pic of pump , looks like midget Wayne 70 that had a high speed accident with a continental kit!! Frank

kmann You can call the husky dog on the Husky pump plates a mutt if you want to, but one of the last Husky pump plates I saw sell on ebay went for $2,222.00.... that is a mutt I wouldn't mind having around.
bob

Dwaine is somewhat our "Watch dog of honest measure" and we don't consider him a mutt!!!

We don't????????
Just kidding Dwaine.

this topic is "going to the dogs"... HA... sorry... i couldn't resist...

Might as well put 10cents in here , theres not much written on this but the story i heard was Edmund Wynn started doing the adds for texaco useing the dalmations , then T.V. came along and the dogs were to hipper for Milton Berle so he started useing his own dog on tv , the texaco hour , if nothing else its a cute story , and the scottish dog was a sign for thriftiness .
This photo was send to me from Chuck Caman,
but i'm sure Jim Hinds has a lot of them ,

[This message has been edited by Dwaine Buck (edited 02-13-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Dwaine Buck (edited 02-13-2003).]

Thanks for all the information guys. I'm
sure I'll have more dumb questions in the
future since I'm kind of a beginner in the
"Field of Petroliana Collection and
Restoration" or as my wife would call it--
Junk Collector. I think it sounds better
my way. Thanks again. Don.

Let me know if you'd like to hear a rendition of "You Can TRUST Your Car To The Man Who Wears The Star". I'll send the words to Dwaine and he can sing for you!

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Jim Hinds
Columbus, Indiana

[This message has been edited by indianrefining1931 (edited 02-14-2003).]

Does anyone remember the Hacienda Hotel and casino in Las Vegas? I scored one of those dog wayne short pumps for 50.00 before they imploded the building about two years ago New Years eve. Saved a piece of history!!! You just never know where the next pump might be hiding. Now how's that for watch dogging.

Rob, you mean the pump was still at the hotel 2 yrs ago and how did you get it??
When i got my dog pump there was a smelly thing in the yard by the shops, I said whats that and the Guy said it was a porcupine that had knocked over a dump truck wheel and tire and pinned and killed the beast. You never know what you will see when pump hunting, he also had a Coke water cooler turned into a parts washer. The Dog pump came from a station near there , i remember when it was still there, probably got tore down 20 yrs ago...dodogas

I am trying to work from memory, but years ago there was a famous painting with the three Scotties and the title was "LISTEN." Texaco adopted this in theie advertising. I have sold Texaco car window decals with the scotties and LISTEN below them. I have also seen a black door stop of the three Scotties with the word LISTEN embossed in the casting. A rare Texaco item. Maybe someone else can fill in the dates for all this.

I once had a 1934 Texaco map from New Zealand that had the 2 scottie dogs on it...so they are probably even earlier then that.

The listen campaign I believe was in the 20,s or 30,s,. There was an article ( or answer to a letter) in Mobilia a long while ago (before it turned into Modelia) It was to illustrate that your motor would run so quietly with Texaco oil that the dogs could hardly hear it..LISTEN..to the difference .. Sure miss the old Mobilia !!!

To continue the Dog theme....Sommers Oil Company in Colorado used the Owners dog "Cinders"..a black scottie looking dog as early as 1924 as a "logo" on their maps & cans and even had the dog logo painted on their station buildings...Their motto was "You won't Growl at Our Service"...