Esso Research Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire 27th Aug 1970 1
Here's the same test petrol station seven years later, and the pump nozzle is being inspected by a gentleman who looks like a cross between Jacob Rees Mogg and Mr Bean, easy to confuse those two! An MG is posing at the pumps, it was new the previous year. We can see two of the pumps have been modernised since the 1963 image. Quite frankly this photo does look a bit absurd and I wonder if it was ever actually used!
The design of the buidling is largely based on ones produced on the continent for a few years prior to this.
No Streetview for these of course, and in any event, the Esso Research Centre closed down a long time ago. There is a Facebook group dedicated to the research centre should anyone be interested.
Esso Research Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire 27th Aug 1970 1
Here's the same test petrol station seven years later, and the pump nozzle is being inspected by a gentleman who looks like a cross between Jacob Rees Mogg and Mr Bean, easy to confuse those two! An MG is posing at the pumps, it was new the previous year. We can see two of the pumps have been modernised since the 1963 image. Quite frankly this photo does look a bit absurd and I wonder if it was ever actually used!
The design of the buidling is largely based on ones produced on the continent for a few years prior to this.
No Streetview for these of course, and in any event, the Esso Research Centre closed down a long time ago. There is a Facebook group dedicated to the research centre should anyone be interested.