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Kōrero: Energy supply and use

Multi-brand service station, 1940s

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Multi-brand service station, 1940s

Multi-brand service stations like this were standard until the mid-20th century. Oil companies provided the pump that supplied their product, but were not allowed to own service stations until the late 1980s, when the industry was deregulated.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection

Reference: 1/2-030414; F/A1308

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Megan Cook, Energy supply and use – Oil storage and distribution, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21438/multi-brand-service-station-1940s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 12 April 2010.