Shell - Excelsior Motor Lodge, Pear Tree, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 8JD 6th August 1975
This photo was taken after the Excelsior Motor Lodge was closed due to a mistake with fuel delivery. Apparently three star petrol had been put in the four star tank and it needed to be removed. There was a clear difference in opinion as to how dangerous such an operation was reading the article - see below.
I remember these services in this era, we used to stop here on our way down to Somerset from Cambridge but in my mind I remember it being BP branded, so either I'm wrong or it had been just a little earlier or later than when this photo was taken. Much revamped now, the services still exist and are now branded Welcome Break, so under the control of Applegreen. Up to about 2020 it had been Shell branded, so I'm guessing my BP memory of the site must date back to before 1975!
Here's a similar view in the present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7942837,-1.2835351,3a,75y,123.9...
Shell - Excelsior Motor Lodge, Pear Tree, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 8JD 6th August 1975
This photo was taken after the Excelsior Motor Lodge was closed due to a mistake with fuel delivery. Apparently three star petrol had been put in the four star tank and it needed to be removed. There was a clear difference in opinion as to how dangerous such an operation was reading the article - see below.
I remember these services in this era, we used to stop here on our way down to Somerset from Cambridge but in my mind I remember it being BP branded, so either I'm wrong or it had been just a little earlier or later than when this photo was taken. Much revamped now, the services still exist and are now branded Welcome Break, so under the control of Applegreen. Up to about 2020 it had been Shell branded, so I'm guessing my BP memory of the site must date back to before 1975!
Here's a similar view in the present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7942837,-1.2835351,3a,75y,123.9...