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Home Page
Hello and welcome to Vintage Garage. If you have an interest in this colourful chapter of our social history, or just want to do some private research then click the links and take a journey back in time. Visit the "Garage Advertising" section where you will find many examples of enamel advertising signs and other advertising media covering petrol, oil and associated companies. In other sections you will find petrol pump globes, petrol pumps, 2 gallon petrol cans, company histories, vintage garage photographs, and much much more. Whilst here don't forget to visit the "Features" and "Printed Advertising" sections where you will find even more to see and appreciate. There are thousands of images to view and many histories to read so please bookmark this site to make your return journey easier.
Test your knowledge
See if you can identify which garage associated companies these mascots, characters and animals represented. Some of these have stood the test of time whilst others were short lived and well beyond recent times. There are some difficult ones here so if you get stuck just click the images for the answers.
 The Esso Tiger 1936 advertisement |
 Miss Rotax 1922 advertisement |
 John Bull 1956 advertisement |
 Red Ring 1949 advertisement |
 The Esso Blue man from the 1950s through to the 1970s, remember the famous song "Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue |
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 Fluid Phil 1935 advertisement |
 The Goddess Nike 1919 advertisement |
 Mr Mercury 1939 advertisement |
 Ethyl Ethyl 1928 advertisement |
 The Sternol cat 1922 advertisement |
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 The CAV mascot 1919 advertisement |
 The Michelin Man 1920 advertisement |
 The Hutchinson cat 1928 advertisement |
 The ghoulish 'Oil Drag' 1953 advertisement |
 John Boyd Dunlop 1946 advertisement |
So how well did you do? If you scored at least 10 you did well, if you got all 15 correct then let me know.
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Missing - can you help!
The following 2 Castrol items have gone missing whilst in shipment. The first item you may remember featured on our home page in April and was last in possession of the Royal Mail on the 19th March 2012 en-route to Australia. The second item, a tin Castrol sign, was last in possession of couriers 'City Link' on the 8th May 2012 bound for Kent. For identification purposes both of these items have unique characteristics
so if any employees of the carrier companies can identify these items or indeed if anyone in the future is offered them to purchase would you please contact Vintage Garage.
 
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Photographic Contributions
We welcome photographic contributions to this site. If you have a related collection, or perhaps a nice petrol pump or another treasured item, or some historical connection with the Vintage Garage that you would like to share then please let us know. Please click here for more details about submitting images.
Your contributions are important and welcomed. Each image sent in helps to make the past a little bit clearer.
If sending images please send as large as possible as this helps with cropping and resizing whilst still maintaining a minimum quality of the original. Images between 1000 and 2000 pixels are preferred. Unfortunately we may not be able to use your image if it is too small.
We do not assume copyright of any image sent in but we do reserve the right to use any image to give the best use and effect for Vintage Garage, and to retain that use. We are pleased to give photo credits but some contributors prefer to remain anonymous. We will assume the latter unless you inform us otherwise.
If any images you send in are personal and you wish them to be marked to deter copying then please let us know and we will put a 'Protected' marker on them. This will not prevent copying but will make the image unviable accept for any personal use.
Where possible, please let us have any dates, makers names or model numbers or any other detail which will help to explain your images.
We take this opportunity of saying thanks to all those contributors who have given so generously in the past.
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Petrol Items Wanted
Do you have any interesting Petrol or Oil items for sale as we or others may be interested in them. Please email to vintagegarage@btinternet.com or telephone 07966 839741 with details.
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