Vintage Champlin Motor Oils Sign: Orignal 1960s Vintage Tin Litho – CMO545

Vintage Champlin Motor Oils Sign Additional Details

Like all of our vintage collectible petroliana, this Champlin Motor Oils sign is original, investment quality memorabilia. This sign is in original, as is condition, and has moderate wear to the sign face as shown in the pictures above.  It is our belief that these vintage signs should be kept in tact with any original dings, dents, bullet holes, etc. as the preserves the original history of the sign. In addition to signs, we also have a large selections of museum quality vintage visible gas pumps, restored vending machines, and more. We are a one stop shop when it comes to outfitting your man cave or game room. We even make custom doors and furniture for in any theme for your man cave. Contact us at 1-800-292-0008 for pricing on the vintage Lubrications-Gas tin sign, or any of our other investment quality, collectible petroliana.

Champlain Motor Oil Company History

The Champlin Refining Company held the distinction of being the nation's largest fully integrated oil company under private ownership. was based at Enid, Oklahoma. In 1916 Enid, OK banker and entrepreneur Herbert Hiram Champlin (1868–1944) bought a lapsed oil lease on the Beggs farm in the fledgling Garber Field about fifteen miles east of Enid. Champlin was reluctant to enter the new and highly speculative oil business, but at his wife's urging he agreed to invest twenty-five thousand dollars in the venture.

Champlin's first well came in on Christmas Day 1916 as a 250-barrel producer. The banker-turned-oilman drilled more wells on his 160-acre lease and in July 1917 purchased a small refineries on the outskirts of Enid, enlarged it to provide a market for the oil from his wells, and established the Champlin Refining Company.  He purchased a series of small oil companies that operated service stations. As the organization grew, it drilled more wells, built a large pipeline network, opened additional refineries, and greatly expanded the retail operation, all under the auspices of Champlin's private ownership.