Logo is a Decal. This sign was used to Identify Texaco Well Ownership. The Logo is a Decal. As Pictured with a few dings and scrapes. PUMP PLATE SERVICE Logo. You are responsible to read the entire description. Most items are insured. Brought to you by Antiques1000. In the Members section, choose. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to navigationJump to search. Oil and gas Offshore. 1901; 118 years ago. San Ramon, California, U. 2,000+ (2006 estimate)[1]. Watson (Chairman & CEO). Petroleum, natural gas and other petrochemicals. (“The Texas Company”) is an American oil subsidiary of Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel “Texaco with Techron”. It also owns the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to the Shell Oil Company. It began as the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil. To accomplish this, Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company in 1902 as a group of investors affiliated with The Texas Fuel Company. Men like John W. (“Bet A Million”) Gates invested in “certificates of interest” to an amount of almost ninety thousand dollars. [2] Future restructuring would merge Producers Oil Company and The Texas Fuel Company as Texaco when the company needed additional funding which J. It was also one of the Seven Sisters which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. Its current logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star” and Star of the American Road. [citation needed] The company was headquartered in Harrison, New York, near White Plains, prior to the merger with Chevron. Texaco gasoline comes with Techron, an additive developed by Chevron, as of 2005, replacing the previous CleanSystem3. The Texaco brand is strong in the U. Latin America and West Africa. It has a presence in Europe as well; for example, it is a well-known retail brand in the UK, with around 850 Texaco-branded service stations. Gippsland Motor Garage, Old Gippstown, Moe, Victoria, Australia, with 1930s Texaco gasoline pump and signage. Antique Texaco advertising, Gippsland Motor Garage, Old Gippstown. Vintage Texaco petrol pump (1925). 1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodgeon display at the Henry Ford Museum. Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the Texas Fuel Company in 1902. [4] In 1905, it established an operation in Antwerp, Belgium, under the name Continental Petroleum Company, which it acquired control of in 1913. [5] The next year, Texaco moved to new offices in Houston on the corner of San Jacinto and Rusk. In 1928, Texaco became the first U. Oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states. This expanded Texaco’s refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gave Texaco the rights to Indian’s Havoline motor oil, which became a Texaco product. The next year, Texaco introduced Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a so-called “super-octane” motor fuel touted as meeting or exceeding government standards for gasoline for fire engines and other emergency vehicles. [7] It was promoted through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn, called the Texaco Fire Chief. Over the next three years the company engaged in a highly challenging project to drill wells and build a pipeline to the coast across mountains and then through uncharted swamps and jungles. [8] During this time, Texaco also illegally supplied the fascist Gen. Franco faction in Spanish Civil War, despite a federal fine, with a total 3,500,000 barrels (560,000 m3) of oil. The next year, Texaco commissioned industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to develop a modern service station design. In 1938, Texaco introduced Sky Chief gasoline, a premium fuel developed from the ground up as a high-octane gasoline rather than just an ethylized regular product. In 1939, Texaco became one of the first oil companies to introduce a “Registered Rest Room” program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public. 193963: The Texas Company to Texaco, Inc. A Texaco fuel station in Miami Beach, Florida. A Texaco fuel dispenser in United Kingdom. After the onset of World War II in 1939, Texaco’s rogue CEO, Torkild Rieber, an admirer of Hitler, hired pro-Nazi assistants who cabled Berlin coded information about ships leaving New York for Britain and what their cargoes were. This espionage easily enabled Hitler to destroy the ships. [10] In 1940, Rieber was forced to resign when his connections with German Nazism, and his illegal supply of oil to the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War were made public by the Herald Tribune through information produced by British Security Coordination. [11][12][13] Life Magazine portrayed Rieber’s resignation as unfair, advocating that he only dined with Westrick, and lent him a company car. During the war, Texaco ranked 93rd among United States corporations in the value of military production contracts. [14] In 1947, Caltex expanded to include Texaco’s European marketing operations. That same year, Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent; it gained full control of Regent in 1956, [15] but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968-9. In 1954, the company added the detergent additive Petrox to its “Sky Chief” gasoline, which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high-compression engines. The next year, Texaco became the sole sponsor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV. In 1959, the Texas Company changed its corporate name to Texaco, Inc. It also acquired McColl-Frontenac Oil Company Ltd. Of Canada and changes its name to Texaco Canada Limited. [16] Around this time, Paragon Oil, a major fuel oil distribution company in the northeastern U. 196498: Various ventures[edit]. Texaco gas pumps, Milford, Illinois1977. Texaco fuel station in Poá (São Paulo), Brazil, 2009. In 1964, Texaco introduced the “Matawan” service station design at a station in Matawan, New Jersey. [17] Two years later, Texaco replaced the long-running banjo sign with a new hexagon logo that had previously been test-marketed with the “Matawan” station design introduced two years earlier. The new logo featured a red outline with TEXACO in black bold lettering and a small banjo logo with a red star and green T at bottom. The following year, the Regent name was replaced by Texaco at British petrol stations. [18]In 1970, in response to increasingly stringent federal emission standards that would ultimately lead to the mandating of unleaded gasoline in 1975 and later-model cars and trucks, Texaco introduced lead-free Texaco as the first regular-octane lead-free gasoline at stations in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California. Lead-free Texaco became available nationwide in 1974. On November 20, 1980, the Lake Peigneur/Jefferson Island disaster occurred. Two years later, a new service station design was introduced. Several product names were also changed with the advent of self-service including Lead-free Texaco to Texaco Unleaded, Fire Chief to Texaco Regular, and Super Lead-free Sky Chief to Texaco Super Unleaded. In 1982, Texaco Canada Limited merged with Texaco Explorations Canada Limited to form Texaco Canada Incorporated, [16] with head offices in Toronto. [19] In 1987, Texaco filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest in U. 1999present: Chevron Corporation[edit]. A Texaco station in Watauga, Texas, taken on 28 April 2016. A Texaco station in Lewisville, Texas, taken on June 10, 2017. In 1999, the company formed the joint venture Equilon with Shell Oil Company, combining their Western and Midwestern U. [24] This gave rise to the 2006 U. Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc. Dagher, which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon’s gasoline. That same year, another joint venture, Motiva Enterprises, was formed with Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco in which the Star Enterprise operations were merged with the Eastern and Gulf Coast U. Refining and marketing operations of Shell. [25][26] Shell began converting its Texaco stations to the Shell brand the next year. [27] In July 2004, Chevron regained non-exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U. [28] The following year, in August, Texaco introduced the Techron additive into its fuels in the U. And parts of Latin America. [29] In 2007, Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron in Benelux, including 869 filling stations, mostly under the Texaco brand. Texaco Canada Petroleum Incorporated was dissolved in 2008 with Texaco exiting from the Canadian market. In 2010 Texaco ended retail operations in the Mid-Atlantic US, removing its brand from 450 stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D. Prior to the merger, Texaco’s headquarters, a 750,000-square-foot (70,000 m2) building, were in Harrison, New York, near White Plains. Texaco leased 14 floors of the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City in the 1930s. As part of the leasing agreement with Texaco the building opened the Cloud Club, a restaurant area for executives. Texaco moved to Westchester County, New York, in 1977. This contributed to the closure of the Cloud Club in 1979. In popular culture[edit]. A location was used in the opening scene of Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie at 6407 West Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, where the main characters Cheech and Chong siphon gasoline from a tow truck. A Jack in the Box now stands at that location. In Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II, a Texaco station in the center of Hill Valley is shown in 1955, 1985, and 2015. Racing driver Nigel Mansell driving in the 1993 CART IndyCar World Series. Driving in the 1998NASCAR Winston Cup. 7 Eggenberger MotorsportFord Sierra RS500 of Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. Eggenberger Motorsport won the 1987 WTCC Entrants Championship. Texaco is associated with the Havoline brand of motor oil and other automotive products. It was one of the sponsors of NASCAR with many drivers, such as Davey Allison, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett; Kenny Irwin, Jr. Ricky Rudd, Jamie McMurray, Casey Mears, and Juan Pablo Montoya. Texaco recently sponsored the #42 Dodge driven by Montoya. Havoline continuously sponsored a car from the early 1980s to 2008. At the end of the 2008 season, Texaco / Havoline officially ended their sponsorship with NASCAR and Chip Ganassi Racing. This brought to a close a 20+-year relationship with the sport. Texaco has also been involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andrettiand his son Michael. In Formula One, Texaco sponsored the Team Lotus in 1972 and 1973, and McLaren from 1974 to 1978. Their association with the team and its successor, Jaguar Racing, continued until the end of 2001, in the same timeline they also sponsored ITV’s Formula 1 Coverage. Texaco sponsored the Tom Walkinshaw Racing Rover Vitesse factory team at the 1985 and 1986 European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) under their Bastos brand, and the Ford Sierra RS500 factory cars entered by Eggenberger Motorsport in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship (plus the 1988 ETCC and other European-based championships). Texaco also sponsored cars in the 1987 World Rally Championship. From 2000 until 2007, it was title sponsor of Stone Brothers Racing with Russell Ingallwinning the 2005 championship. In 2016, Caltex became title sponsor of the Triple Eight Race Engineering car of Craig Lowndes, having previously been an associate sponsor of the team. Texaco was long associated with the Metropolitan Opera as sole sponsor of its radio broadcasts for 63 years. It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Ed Wynn, Fred Allen and Milton Berle many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: We’re the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico… Berle’s program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J. Sheen’s religious program for a while, thus leading to Berle’s oft-quoted quip, We both have the same boss Sky Chief! From 1984 to 1998, Texaco were the title sponsors of the main One Day International cricket tournament in England, the Texaco Trophy. It also sponsored the Texaco Cup, a football tournament for clubs of the British Isles. The item “VINTAGE TEXACO CALIFORNIA INC. SIGN GAS OIL PORCELAIN PUMP PLATE SERVICE Logo” is in sale since Sunday, June 2, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Advertising\Gas & Oil\Merchandise & Memorabilia\Signs”. The seller is “uniqueantiques1000″ and is located in Saline, Michigan. 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