Jet Petroleum
of Keadby, near Scunthorpe (1959)
of Huddersfield
of Berkeley Square, London (1964)
1953 Jet built its own ocean terminal and storage facilities for importing products to supply the commercial user market in the UK
1954 Bill Roberts opened his first petrol station.[1]
1954 White Star Petroleum was incorporated
1958 Jet cut-price petrol entered the UK retail market, supplying imported petrol which it was able to buy abroad at lower prices.
1960 Not only were Jet's prices lower than those of the leading suppliers but the octane rating of its standard grade was higher. Jet petrol was sold only among the 7 per cent of stations not tied to the major oil companies. The company had been supplying municipalities and industrial users for some years.
1961 Jet became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Continental Oil Co. of Delaware, obtaining its petrol from the company's refineries abroad.
As their bulk fuel supplies were then being handled at Keadby and Immingham, Jet Petroleum, Ltd. planned to spend about £500,000 on building a terminal at Cardiff Docks and setting up between 200 and 300 filling stations throughout Wales, Gloucestershire and Somerset.[2]
1963 White Star Petroleum was renamed Jet Petroleum.
1965 Continental Oil (U.K.) announced plans to build the first refinery on the Humber estuary at Immingham[3]
1969 Opened refinery at South Killingholme, Lincs[4].
1974 Started testing a road petrol tanker that carried synthetic grp.[5]
1996 Jet Petroleum Ltd was renamed Jiffy Ltd