These period advertisements featuring the Anglo-American Oil Co are a valuable research tool particularly in respect of charting the changes of brand name from Pratts to Esso which occurred in 1935 (although a tester occurred in 1933 when Essolube was first mentioned in the ad of that year), and then the change in company name to the Esso Petroleum Co Ltd which happened in 1951. Appearing in Journals, Magazines and Newspapers these adverts show the evolution in products and company styles, they also help to build up a more accurate picture of the petrol and motor industry as it was 60 to 110 years ago. If you can help to fill any pre war advertising gaps
then please send in large format images, they will be most appreciated as they will help to build a better understanding of the company and its products. Please note that some of these images are necessarily large.
If you have any examples of interesting period paper advertising relating to the Vintage Garage and would like to submit images then please email the largest possible size
as this will help us to crop and re-size but to still maintain image quality and detail which is important. Also please include any relevant information such as dates, publication source etc, and also whether you would like a photographic credit. All submissions will be warmly welcomed.
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.
