I remember moaning like anything when diesel got to this price. Now it would be like manna from heaven. A couple of older style petrol pumps from a disused garage in Rhaeadr.
© David Meaden

Them's not old, they're using decimal currency, now these are somewhat older, (linked from Google)

[user=1342]mynnyddog[/user] wrote:

I remember moaning like anything when diesel got to this price. Now it would be like manna from heaven. A couple of older style petrol pumps from a disused garage in Rhaeadr.
© David Meaden

in the early seventies (1973 ish) petrol was 32p a gallon,yes a gallon and in them days diesel was even cheaper.

I remember my Dad filling up his Standard 8 for £1. An 8 Gallon tank at 2s-6d (12½p) per gallon.  :hmm

Some older ones I have discovered on my travels.

© David Meaden




This one is in Llanidloes. I'm not sure why they built the wall round it. I'm presuming it was a petrol pump but maybe it isn't. Any ideas anyone?







This rather battered example is in Abatycwmhir.

Couple of quick shots

First from USA (Utah)


Second from Much Marcle (Hereford)

I'd agree Mike - those pumps are "nearly new". :shock::shock:  yours are far closer to those I remember as a youth - as is Trevor's pricing policy. :roll::roll:  I'm sure I remember "Regular", rather than "Super" being 1/11d a gallon.  Octanes hadn't been thought of at that time …………….:???:

I do remember the hand winders being heavily in use in the old East Germany just after the wall came down.  I stopped to fill up late one February night on my way from Nuremburg to Dresden on a pre-war cobbled  "Transit Route".  I was driving a Volvo Estate which took more petrol to fill the tank than they used to sell to the local Trabant owners in a week !!  The Trabants were fuelled from the hand winders with 2 Stroke whilst I was served from the brand new electric pump that had been installed sometime between then and the previous October.  it was late, very cold and very dark - even in the filling station - and everything was shrouded in thick "smog" from the Trabant exhausts.  A real "espionage" scene.