Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,390 pages of information and 246,901 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Cleveland Petroleum Co

From Graces Guide
May 1949.
1949.
October 1949.
October 1949.
1950.
April 1950.
November 1950.
May 1951.
February 1952. Clevecol.
May 1952.
August 1952.
October 1953. Clevecol.
November 1954. Clevecol.
1956.
April 1962.

of Central House, Upper Woburn Place, W.C.1

of Bedford

c.1939 The name of Petroleum Storage and Finance Corporation was changed to Cleveland Petroleum Co[1]; its principal subsidiary had been Cleveland Petroleum Products Co

1954 Esso increased its holding in the company

1958 Esso acquired the remaining shares in Cleveland Petroleum Co [2].

1962 Advert: Cleveland Discol fuel. Discol was trademark of Distillers Co Ltd. Cleveland was trademark of Cleveland Petroleum Co Ltd.

1973 Both the Esso and Cleveland names continued in use until 1973, when the Cleveland filling stations were re-branded as Esso.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Feb. 12, 1940
  2. The Times, 23 January 1958