Streamlined COE fuel tanker of unknown make built for Gilmore

Good looking rolling advertisement

Gilmore's 1934 traveling neon sign fuel tanker (mack chassis)

found on http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/471611.html#cutid1

I finally stumbled across some new photos of the 1937 REO fuel tanker

found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352

the only other image I ever came across was in 2009: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/02/there-may-never-be-day-in-future-when.html and since all 3 images show the REO with the same side marking advertising Super Plume Ethyl, I suppose it's the only one vehicle in these 3 photos

Chevron/Texaco oil company delivery (oldest to relatively newest) and famous customers

Flat out this has to be the earliest, most basic transport of gas or oil by an oil company.

1910 Mack


Above 1933
C&H Hawaiian Sugar co

Above Barney Oldfield
Amelia Earhart
this is Frank Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in August of 1932, and purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932.
Photos from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm

Loading a Doodlebug in Feb 1934 San Antonio

Found on http://reservatory6.blogspot.com/

The elusive Doodlebug fuel tanker, seeing one photographed in the wild is so rare that this is the first sighting of one in 2 years. (seriously, this is only the 2nd photo I've ever come across)

in 1935 Texaco designed this tanker and had Diamond T truck company make them to provide greater economy, ease of operation, increased visibility, and greater capacity.