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How many of you folks ever got your gas from a gravity flow pump like that.....with no auto shut off? I did when I was a kid cutting lawns to earn some
spending money down on the Texas coast in the ever existing humid summers. Had white gas in it for 25cents a gallon. Was at a Gulf filling station. Pumps
out front had Regular and Ethyl but it was more expensive. Had a park bench and a Coca Cola lift top soda pop machine with cold Orange Crush, Grapette,
Cream Soda and the regulars still surviving today soda pop. Yards were $3.00. Walked the streets pushing the mower knocking on doors. About 3 of us
boys doing that in the neighborhood. That's where I learned about supply and demand, competition, haggling, and surviving.
 
I remember a gravity pump by a barn near here, sorry I never stopped and
triied to buy it.
 
Was one on Grandpa and Grandma's farm. Had a bullet hole halfway up the glass, so you had to watch what you were doing when pumping it up.
There wee 4 stores in our little community up the road from our farm when I was a kid.
One still used a pump like that to sell gas up into the 60's.
Richard in NW SC
 
All the gravity pumps were gone by the time I came along.

But I do remember hearing about "white gas".

Not sure what the application for it was. Is it the same as unleaded? Sub for Coleman fuel? 2 cycle fuel?
 
I never used one, but a distant cousin had one at their country store. It was said that they would leave gas in the glass section and as the sun would warm it up it would expand and show that you were getting more gas than you really was. All I can say is they were distant relatives.
 
White gas is what naphtha was called. It was sold as white gas, usually off in the back of the gas station someplace. Good fuel for Coleman type appliances like stoves and lanterns.
Coleman fuel is also naphtha - mostly. With some "secret ingredients" added.
 

My grandfather had a pump like that when I was growing up. I remember pumping it up for him when he was fueling something up. A couple years ago my cousins cleaned it up and repainted it and it is now on display out at the home farm.
 
white gas was sold in my area on LI as Marine gas--it lasted longer in boat tanks before going bad
 
(quoted from post at 05:22:59 09/04/18) How many of you folks ever got your gas from a gravity flow pump like that.....with no auto shut off? I did when I was a kid cutting lawns to earn some
spending money down on the Texas coast in the ever existing humid summers. Had white gas in it for 25cents a gallon. Was at a Gulf filling station. Pumps
out front had Regular and Ethyl but it was more expensive. Had a park bench and a Coca Cola lift top soda pop machine with cold Orange Crush, Grapette,
Cream Soda and the regulars still surviving today soda pop. Yards were $3.00. Walked the streets pushing the mower knocking on doors. About 3 of us
boys doing that in the neighborhood. That's where I learned about supply and demand, competition, haggling, and surviving.
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got as little as $1.50 per lawn and up to $12.50 for one 'all day' acre+ lawn, walk behind 21" cut. Still have the gas pump. Mom & Dad had station in late 20's and when state re-routed HWY 75, that closed it, but he kept the pump, and underground tank and all my family used it into the 60's. Sure was nice as a driving teen. :) Then when Ma Bell used their eminent domain powers on us, I saved the pump before the old station (and Mon's home) was demolished for Bell to get their 'must have' parking lot that is still seldom used to this day!! Grrrr!
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Has a lower octane too. Good for your little push mower cause at the end of the season you just let the machine run out of gas. Any left in the tank or carb just evaporates and leaves no residue.
 
I was looking at the tractor since one of my grandfathers had an F20. Looks like a rain gutter was used for the exhaust pipe. It also looks like it
is past the time you?d worry about snow, but the tire chains are still on the axle, maybe extra weight. Anybody know why the bolts were extra
long on the back of the axle?
Wayne
 
That is a seldom seen tread pattern on the rear tires, possibly one of the earliest designs for a tractor tire. Many tractors went to rubber tires from steel wheels around 1935-1937 so would guess the tractor is about that date range.The gas pump has writing on it, can't read it. What does it say.
 
That's a great picture. We had a pump with a glass top on the farm. It had a hand crank Dad would hide, when my brother starting driving. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 12:37:42 09/04/18) That is a seldom seen tread pattern on the rear tires, possibly one of the earliest designs for a tractor tire. Many tractors went to rubber tires from steel wheels around 1935-1937 so would guess the tractor is about that date range.The gas pump has writing on it, can't read it. What does it say.
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can see **olite **oline

**olite Gasoline, but about 2 missing letters?
 
.....they would leave gas in the glass section and as the sun would warm it up it would expand and show that you were getting more gas than you really was.
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My dad worked at a California filling station as a young man and he said the same thing. Boss would tell the pump jockey to fill the glass with ~3 gallons after the last customer. The sun would warm the gas and make it expand some. Don't know how much a gallon of gas expands, but probably a fair bit in California heat.
 
(quoted from post at 09:57:24 09/04/18)
(quoted from post at 12:37:42 09/04/18) That is a seldom seen tread pattern on the rear tires, possibly one of the earliest designs for a tractor tire. Many tractors went to rubber tires from steel wheels around 1935-1937 so would guess the tractor is about that date range.The gas pump has writing on it, can't read it. What does it say.
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can see **olite **oline

**olite Gasoline, but about 2 missing letters?
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I would say it's "Solite Gasoline", originating in Indiana in 1929 under the Standard brand name. There's a little info on it here:
https://www.oldgas.com/info/additive.htm
 
I have the GB that was was used until the Case comfort king became too tall to fill efficiently. It is now painted Flambeau Red but not working.
 
Someone said that is an F-20 tractor. That model was produced from 1932 to 1939. Factory original paint was gray until 1935. Factory original wheels were steel and rubber tires were optional in later years of production. If that tractor is red it would be a 1936 -- 1939. Can't tell the color on this old computer.
 
the bolts would used to attach a power lift for a plow or cultivator. lift ran off the pto, so if you wanted to use the pto for something, say for a mowing machine, you had to remove the power lift.
 
I remember hearing something about that but at my age at the time, sub teen, I didn't know what all that tech stuff meant....just that it made my mower run and was cheap. Grin
 
There must be different types of naphtha.

I remember my dad sold it from a 55 gal barrel for use as solvent. A lot of it went for paint thinner.

It didn't smell like gasoline, wasn't as flammable, and didn't evaporate like gas.

It made a good spot cleaner for upholstery!
 
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