Multiple Brands - AH Moss, Motor Engineer, The Street, Latchingdon, Essex 1930's
Amazingly this garage still exists in the present day - although fuel sales ended a long time ago. But not a huge amount of time ago as there is some evidence on the site that petrol was being sold in the 1960's or even the 1970's here. There's the stump of a pole sign, square in section and tapering which means only certain brands - National, Burmah, possibly Fina are the likely candidates. Back in what must be the early 1930's the garage is selling Shell, BP and National Benzole - and I think that's a Jowett on the forecourt from the writing on the front of the radiator grille - happy to be corrected if wrong. There is a petrol station here in the present day but it's on the opposite side of the road and about thirty yards further down - branded Texaco in the most recent Streetview shot but that's 2009 and the map itself suggests it's a BP now. Here's the same view today www.google.com/maps/@51.6709803,0.7168795,3a,75y,222.5h,7...
Multiple Brands - AH Moss, Motor Engineer, The Street, Latchingdon, Essex 1930's
Amazingly this garage still exists in the present day - although fuel sales ended a long time ago. But not a huge amount of time ago as there is some evidence on the site that petrol was being sold in the 1960's or even the 1970's here. There's the stump of a pole sign, square in section and tapering which means only certain brands - National, Burmah, possibly Fina are the likely candidates. Back in what must be the early 1930's the garage is selling Shell, BP and National Benzole - and I think that's a Jowett on the forecourt from the writing on the front of the radiator grille - happy to be corrected if wrong. There is a petrol station here in the present day but it's on the opposite side of the road and about thirty yards further down - branded Texaco in the most recent Streetview shot but that's 2009 and the map itself suggests it's a BP now. Here's the same view today www.google.com/maps/@51.6709803,0.7168795,3a,75y,222.5h,7...