Name: Visible Texaco Gas Pump - Antique Gas Pumps Restored - TGP432
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Visible Texaco Gas Pump - Antique Gas Pumps Restored

This Is A Wayne Visible Hand Pump Cir 1918. Completely Restored To Better Than Original. All Parts Are Correct And Original And Are In Full Working Order. Order One Restored To Museum Quality Historically Correct Like This One. All Brass Parts Are Solid Polished Original Brass With - Rare Collectors Preferred "Texaco Globe" - Original Milk Glass Globe. Belly Sign Is Original Porcelain - All Sign-age Is Correct Original Era. See History Of This Item At Bottom Of This Page.

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We Build Complete Historically Correct Vintage Filling Stations, Soda Fountains, Drive Inns And Many Other Authentic In Every Detail Environments In Any Era You Wish To Create For You Enjoyment Or Business. We Pre Fab Entire Free Standing Full Function Historical Sets In Full Detail For - Store Fronts - Your Favorite In The Day Hang Out - Out Door Or In Door Displays To Fit Any Specifications.

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All Genuine Collectable Americana Is Approved And Guaranteed To Be The Real McCoy By Artist And Design Expert H. J. Nick and ArtFactory.com a handmade in America custom Fine Art Furnishings manufacturer is based in Scottsdale Arizona has been designing building and restoring some of the worlds finest Antiques, and Fine Art furniture for some of the world's finest designers with ordinary clients as well as most prominent and successful Persons, C.E.O.'s, leaders, royalty and celebrities for the last 99 years. Most of our clients want finished product that has a BIG WOW factor and elegance. All want investment value and quality that makes a proper statement reflecting their personality or the personality of the environment for which it is intended.

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We Buy High Quality (Antiques) Junk - Old Gas Pumps - Cars And Vintage Petroleum Memorabilia - Any Condition - Top Dollar Cash - We Pick Up Or Ship World Wide. Call 1 800 292 0008.

Some Interesting Historical Facts

The first gasoline pump was invented and sold by Sylvanus F. Bowser in Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 5, 1885. This pump was not used for automobiles, as they had not been invented yet. It was instead used for some kerosene lamps and stoves. He later improved upon the pump by adding safety measures, and also by adding a hose to directly dispense fuel into automobiles. For a while, the term bowser was used to refer to a vertical gasoline pump. Although the term is not used anymore in the United States, it still is used sometimes in Australia and New Zealand.

Many early gasoline pumps had a calibrated glass cylinder on top. The desired quantity of fuel was pumped up into the cylinder as indicated by the calibration. Then the pumping was stopped and the gasoline was let out into the customers tank by gravity. When metering pumps came into use, a small glass globe with a turbine inside replaced the measuring cylinder but assured the customer that gasoline really was flowing into the tank.

Historical Facts Of This Item.

The first hurdle in developing the modern gasoline pump was recognizing that such a thing was needed. Early in the century, when cars were still rare, gasoline was essentially a nuisance for petroleum refiners, a byproduct of kerosene distillation that had to be disposed of somehow.

It had a variety of minor uses: as a solvent and as a fuel for lamps, stoves, and engines. Automobiles were somewhere near the bottom of the list. Customers who wanted to buy gasoline would go to the back of their local hardware, general, or grocery
store, wait for the proprietor to pour the required amount from a barrel or tank, and then carry it away in a leaky metal canister.

As automobiles grew more common, the danger and inconvenience of this method became evident. Sylvanus F. Bowser of Fort Wayne, Indiana, took the first step toward safe gasoline sales in 1905 by adapting a kerosene pump he had designed twenty years earlier. Bowser?s ?Self-measuring Gasoline Storage Pump? consisted of a
fifty-gallon metal tank enclosed in a wooden cabinet with fume vents. A hand-operated suction mechanism pumped gasoline directly into the vehicle through a flexible hose, with each pull of the lever dispensing a preset amount.

For easy access the unit could be set up in front of a store or at the curb. Jake Gumpper, a stove-gas supplier who became Bowser?s first salesman, dubbed the arrangement a ?filling station.? Other companies quickly brought out similar apparatus.

Using a pump instead of a simple gravity-operated spigot made it possible to put the tank underground, which was safer, took up less space, and reduced contamination and evaporation. Pump makers soon added gauges to measure the amount dispensed. These changes were not always in the consumer?s interest, since unscrupulous dealers could adulterate the unseen gasoline or overcharge by rigging the dial.

The answer was to let the customer see what and how much he was buying. As early as 1901 John J. Tokheim of Thor, Iowa, patented a pumping unit with a domed glass cylinder on top. The product being dispensed?kerosene, machine oil, or gasoline would first be pumped into the cylinder, which was marked with a volume scale.

After the quantity had been verified and any water had separated out, the liquid would be released to flow by gravity into the customers container. In 1906 Tokheim introduced a model specially designed for gasoline. It was six feet tall, weighed 135 pounds, and came in red or black enamel with gold trim.

TOKHEIMS INVENTION SOLD POORLY AT first, but the idea behind it caught on. In 1912 the Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Company of Boston brought out its T-8 model, with an etched-glass advertising globe on top, a dial indicator for precise measurement of the amount dispensed, a hand-operated quick-discharge piston that could deliver fifteen gallons per minute, and an access door with lettering that read FILTERED GASOLINE.

Over the centurys second decade American automobile ownership exploded, and similar pumps from scores of manufacturers could be found wherever there were cars. Pump companies developed a new design, with a ten-gallon glass holding cylinder mounted on a six-foot steel pedestal. The cylinder was marked for volume, making the questionable dial gauge unnecessary. Both types retained the illuminated advertising globe on top.

Hand-pumped dispensers with visible tanks persisted into the 1920s, growing steadily more decorative. Since most gasoline was sold by independent dealers stocking little-known brands, a reliable, well-designed pump could be a selling point for wary customers.

Recognizing this, pump makers advertised directly to motorists. During the 1920s, though, gasoline sales started to become more centralized, with vertically integrated
corporations replacing the previous hodgepodge of jobbers and retailers. Instead of buying anonymous gasoline from a repair shop or curbside pump of questionable reliability, a driver could pull into an attractively designed filling station (in the modern sense of the term), often run by a national oil company.

Trustworthiness began to reside more in the brand of gasoline than in the pump. Big refiners dyed their gasoline with distinctive colors toestablish an identity. By the end of the decade, more than 90 percent of gasoline would be sold at stations built
for the purpose.

IN 1923 THE FIRST ELECTRICALLY OPERATED PUMP came out, greatly reducing the elbow-grease requirement. Two years later Erie Meter Systems abandoned visual measurement and inspection entirely in favor of an electric dial that registered gallons and fractions with small and large hands, as on a clock.

The next big advance came in 1933, when the Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Company of Fort Wayne introduced its ingenious variator, a mechanical computer. The variator displayed the amount dispensed with revolving number wheels and simultaneously calculated the price, eliminating the need for any familiarity with arithmetic by either party to the transaction. Drivers could finally buy a dollars worth of gasoline without resorting to long division.

Other companies tried to replicate the device, but Wayne defended its patent fiercely, and eventually all the major American gas-pump makers licensed its technology. By the end of the 1930s, revolving wheels were tabulating gasoline sales at almost every service station in America.

The venerable Tokheim Corporation introduced electronic measurement in 1975, and today microprocessors allow such innovations as debit-card pay terminals with video display screens. Nowadays one gas pump looks much like another, and consumers place much more emphasis on price than on the brand of gasoline, let alone
the manufacturer of the pump.

Historical Facts On Texaco Oil Co

Texaco ("The Texas Company") is the name of an American oil retail brand. Its flagship product is its fuel, "Texaco with Techron". It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until it merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001.

It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon discovery of oil at Spindletop. For many years, Texaco was the only company selling gasoline under the same brand name in all 50 states as well as Canada, making it the most truly national brand among its competitors. Its current logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" and "Star of the American Road." The company was headquartered in Harrison, New York, near White Plains, prior to the merger.

Texaco gasoline comes with Techron, an additive developed by Chevron, as of 2005, replacing the previous CleanSystem3. The Texaco brand is strong in the U.S., Latin America and West Africa. It has a presence in Europe as well; for example, it is a well-known retail brand in the UK, with around 1,100 Texaco-branded service stations.

Visible Texaco Gas Pump – Antique Gas Pumps Restored Info

Vintage Gas Pump Restorations By ArtFactory.com - Museum Quality

All brass parts are solid polished original brass
Rare collectors preferred original "Milk Glass" globe
All sign-age is correct porcelain original era material (no fake foreign made parts or signs used)
All internals have been polished and rebuilt
Pump is in working order
Backed by a century of fine craftsmanship since 1913

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We are the oldest and largest restorer of fine art, museum quality, historically correct antiques, and supplier of genuine investment quality un-restored classic Americana (namely signs). Museum quality, historically correct means a world class restoration that preserves all original signs, badges, glass with anomalies, natural aged patina, ect. with non structural damage. All age wear and tear is proudly displayed, when possible, on signage and gas pump globes. Contact the Art Factory for information on restoring your antique gas pumps at 1-800-292-0008.