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Kōrero: Energy supply and use

Single-supplier service station

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Single-supplier service station

Branded service stations saved oil companies money and increased profits. Oil-company petrol tankers made fewer stops and discharged more petrol or diesel each time. Among motorists brand loyalty was weak – the location of a service station was more important, and companies with the best sites sold more petrol. This Caltex station is in Wellington, in the 1950s or early 1960s.

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Reference: B.026650

by Gordon Burt

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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/21439/single-supplier-service-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

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