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This is from the "Company Histories" section of my 2nd Edition of Gas Pump Book:

Tuthill Pump Company
Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Tuthill started in business as the Ossian Engineering Co., Inc., of Ossian, Indiana, making the “Fill-Rite” pumps in the late 1940s. They made only commercial pumps. By the mid-1960s the company moved to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and the name was changed to the Tuthill Pump Company.

This type of pumps were not used in service stations, they were used on farms, taxi garages, truck company garages, etc. where there was no necessity to compute the price of the gasoline being pumped, just the amount of gallons. Also these pumps did not used globes or advertising as the gasoline was not sold retail to the public.

Jack Sim