Lubrication and lubricants

Date: 1930

By: Vacuum Oil Company

Reference: Eph-A-PETROL-1930s-01

Description: Book of blotters, each promoting a Vacuum Oil product: Super Plume Ethyl There's plenty of pep in economical Plume You can't buy a better motor oil than Clearosol Mobiloil Super Plume ethyl, and Plume Motor Spirit "Oh Mummy - doesn't the bath look lovely and clean?" In every home there's a need for Laurel kerosene. Vacuum products: Flit the perfect insecticide; Vacuum household lubricant, Laurel kerosene, Mobil Upperlube, Vacuum hydraulic brake fluid, Mobil shock absorber oil Date estimated from newspaper advertising of these products and from the style of petrol pump illustrated. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 6 leaves, 98 x 206 mm.

Date: [1934]

By: Vacuum Oil Company

Reference: Eph-A-PETROL-1934-01

Description: Advertising flier shows at right a glass bottle of Shell motor oil, showing its shell logo. The text explains that "we clean, fill and seal the new quart bottle in our own plant, and the garage attendant tears our aluminium seal in your presence". Verso gives facts about the newly launched R.M.S. 'Queen Mary'. Date estimated from newspaper advertising of these products and from the style of petrol pump illustrated. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Relief print on sheet 203 x 155 mm, possibly originally a page from a booklet.