1957 TEXACO Zippo Pocket Lighter! Well Used!

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1957 TEXACO Zippo Pocket Lighter! *BEAT to Hell* Please check my sellers list for more great vintage lighters. This vintage 1957 full size Zippo pocket lighter features the logo for Texaco. This is a well used Zippo. Condition is fair, at best. It shows all types of wear including a 100% loss of the logo enamel. It is all original & still in perfect working condition. This is a 7-day, NO RESERVE auction. California residents please add 9.25% sales tax. Paypal is the required payment method. Thanks & Texaco was an independent company until it merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. It began as the Texas Fuel Company , founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas , by Joseph S. Cullinan , Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp , and Arnold Schlaet upon discovery of oil at Spindletop . For many years, Texaco was the only company selling gasoline in all 50 states, but this is no longer true. Its 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 , prior to the merger.Texaco gasoline comes with Techron , an additive developed by Chevron, as of 2005, replacing the previous CleanSystem3. The Texaco brand is strong in the United States, 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 1,100 Texaco-branded service stations.The current CEO is David J. O'Reilly . Contents 1 History 2 Corporate headquarters 3 Sponsorships 4 Environmental issues 5 See also 6 References 7 External links History A Texaco fuel station in Miami Beach, Florida . 1911 – Texaco purchased from owner of the Red Star Oil Company, one Mr. Dawkins. 1928 – Texaco became the first U.S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all 48 states (50 states after Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union in 1959). 1931 – The Texas Company (Texaco's corporate name) purchased Indian Oil Company, based in Illinois, a move that expanded Texaco's refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gave Texaco the rights to Indian's manufacturing processes of Havoline "Wax Free" motor oil, which became a Texaco product and provided the company with a higher quality motor oil product. 1932 – Texaco introduced Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a motor fuel that met the octane requirements for fire engines, and promoted it through a radio program over NBC that was hosted by Ed Wynn the "Texaco Fire Chief." /graphics/NBCOrchEdWynnTexaco1.jpg 1936 - Texaco begins supplying the Nationalist rebels in Spain with oil, and continues to do so for the duration of the war, delivering some 3.5 million barrels. [1 ]1937 – Texaco commissioned industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to develop a modern service station design. The resulting "Teague" Texaco station design was a functional white building with green trimmings featuring one or more service bays for "Washing", "Marfak Lubrication", etc., an office area with large plate glass window for display of tires, batteries and accessories along with "Men" and "Ladies" restrooms featuring Texaco-green tile walls and floors. The Teague station design was typically built of white porcelain tile but local and regional variations could include painted brick, concrete brick and stucco materials. Other features included red Texaco stars on the upper facade on outer sidewalls and above the service bays, and red lettering spelling out "TEXACO" above the office area. Stations were identified by the street from Texaco's "banjo" sign. 1938 – Texaco introduced Sky Chief gasoline, a premium grade fuel developed from the ground up as a high-octane gasoline rather than just an ethylized regular product. Sky Chief was dispensed from a silver gas pump in contrast with the red pump used f... read more

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