Old petrol pumps
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© David Meaden
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Cheers MIKE
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I'm like my avatar - a local ruin!
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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.
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in the early seventies (1973 ish) petrol was 32p a gallon,yes a gallon and in them days diesel was even cheaper.
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Alan
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Trevor
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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.
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First from USA (Utah)
Second from Much Marcle (Hereford)
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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.
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