Fuelling the Motoring Age
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Petrol stations have been with us for 100 years. They have been built on countless rural and industrial landscapes, often becoming a linchpin of the communities they serve. Men and women in slightly oily overalls would fill up your car’s tank, wipe the windscreen and even check the oil for you. Football coins, Green Shield Stamps, soup bowls or wine glasses might be handed over to keep your custom – all in the days when a single £1 note was enough to buy hundreds of miles of happy motoring. This vivid, illustrated history takes the reader on a journey from collecting a tin can at the local ironmonger’s to filling up on the forecourt, and on to the possibility of not using petrol at all.
NICK EVANS has been a career journalist for more than 40 years, mainly in PR and internal communications in a range of writing, design and production roles. For 20 years, he ran a successful communications business with clients including the NHS, Stagecoach, BT and Pfizer pharmaceutical. He has previously written Fuelling the Motoring Age for The History Press, as well as a number of local history books. He lives in Kent.