When petrol flowed by gravity.
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Yes, there was a time
during the transition from horse drawn vehicles to motor cars and trucks, when
the Kings Arms upgraded to selling
petrol to their guests for their cars. It was a very simple manual wobble pump
that pumped the petrol from the underground tank up to one of two glass gallon
jars and when full it was then switched over to drain manually via a metal boom
pipe through a hose and into the cars petrol tank, or to fill the two gallon
can as a spare on the cars running board. As the first was being emptied the
second was being filled by the attendant. This photo was taken between 1925 and
1935, most likely using a Kodak 620 box camera, as it can be seen in the bottom
right of the photo the shoe repair shop and what was Mrs. Vale’s sweet and
cigarette and paper shop The petrol pumps remained in use until the end of the
war, when they were dismantled.
The photo here is a close up to show you the way the petrol was delivered to the car from the measured glass jar via a swinging boom arm down into the car petrol tank using gravity.
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