INTERESTING TIDBITS

Stoll Refining Company put out a corporate newsletter, called "Golden Tips" that was full of personal and business news, product selling tips, and safety, along with witty sayings. Here are a couple of interesting facts I came across.

Golden Tips No. 433 April 23, 1946
"Ethyl may not now be made above 80 octane. This new government requirement has come because of lead shortages".

Many of you, especially the pump collectors have come across this quite frequently. A person will tell you, "I remember...or I saw...one of those old pumps that you pump the gas up into the globe". I either ignored their mistake or corrected them on the subject. I would explain the gasoline was pumped into a glass "cylinder" and the "globe" was an advertising piece on the very top of the pump. Seems I may have been the one wrong.


Golden Tips No. 460 June 24, 1947
"Dealers who use visible pumps should be careful to keep the visible globes empty in the middle of the hot sun-shiny days. Bright sunshine on the globes tends both to cause the dealer to run a slight shortage and also to hurt the octane of the gasoline.
This is not so important in the early morning or late afternoon, or on shaded pumps, but the danger is that a fellow will pump it up in the morning, and leave it there all day."




Notice the "jeweled" globe bodies on the pumps!!! Don't think this company didn't have CLASS!!!