The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread

[The Don of Croy]

DickyC said:

Wheelers, London Road, under construction in 1956. This was the Wheelers premises I remember when I came to Newbury in 1991.

Great post - I may be wrong but I think that sign on the new build is 'Conder', a pioneer of portal frame designs.

They later became the UK's biggest portal frame company and also petrol canopy supplier. How much more anoraky can we get?

[anonymous-user]

I haven't looked them up but believe they still do canopies. I certainly dealt with them about 10 years ago.

[zeb]

Steve_W said:

What an excellent response and update!

Isn't it just.

thanks for sharing mr.wheeler

[Mark Benson]

Pwig said:

Has anyone mentioned this one in Leeming village yet?


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.3066858,-1.56166...

That's Nattrasses' Garage in Leeming Bar.
Still going but not for much longer, old boy Frank Nattrass is well over retirement age and his sons aren't keen on taking over. Never worked out how he made any money....

[eglf]

Munlocky Garage still going.

[DickyC]

More on the Black & White Garage in Cold Ash, courtesy of James Wheeler.







If I quadrupled the size of my garage and started collecting Italian cars, that would be okay, wouldn't it?

[zeb]

yeah....I mean, what could possibly go wrong ?!!

[Benjo42]

I was up in the Peak district near Bakewell and came across this, next to the carpark for the Devil's Arse in Castelton
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.343146,-1.778234...

[anonymous-user]

Easy access to driving refreshment - classic

[DickyC]

In East Hagbourne in Oxfordshire:





Post Office, car maintenance, community shop and Free Range eggs. And, in the past, petrol:





S.K. Passey. It may well have been Mr Passey I spoke to. He asked where I worked and, when I said Hermitage, he said he had worked near there in the Black and White Garage in Cold Ash which was featured in here a couple of weeks ago and led to the series of Wheeler's photos. He worked at the Black and White when they were Alfa specialists.

[Bluedot]

DickyC said:

In East Hagbourne in Oxfordshire:

I remember the 'see the sight glasses are full...' instructions on pumps.
I never knew what a sight glass was though

[Bonefish Blues]

Little glass "bowl" or cylinder on the side of the pump.

[anonymous-user]

Two of these (or similar) were for sale at Goodwood for £14K. HUGE - must have been 10' tall with lights on n'all. Seller said they weren't working and had been striped out. Big sight glass in the middle.

[Morningside]

Bluedot said:

DickyC said:

In East Hagbourne in Oxfordshire:

I remember the 'see the sight glasses are full...' instructions on pumps.
I never knew what a sight glass was though

Bonefish Blues said:

Little glass "bowl" or cylinder on the side of the pump.

Some used to have a little rotating fan so you could see the flow.

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I've nothing to add other than a thank you. This is a lovely thread that myself and I'm sure many others are enjoying - even if not contributed.

[anonymous-user]

Three cheers for Dicky
Hip hip hooray

[DickyC]

Too kind, too kind.

[anonymous-user]

Stop butting in ....

.....hip hip hooray.....

[DickyC]

Strenuous resistance to the 21st Century observed in Haslemere earlier.

[Packrat]