Husky Signpast / Sinclair Penn Motor Oil
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Husky Signpast / Sinclair Penn Motor Oil REPRODUCTION VINTAGE SIGNS Remember the signs you used to see at service stations and car lots? Here they are again. These authentic vintage signs are made from 18 gauge steel and feature a colorful baked enamel finish. Our Vintage signs add a finishing touch to your barn, workshop or garage Over 100 different signs 18 gauge steel 25 1/2" diameter size, unless noted Durable finish Features Baked Enamel Finish for a Durable and Cost Efficient Finish Signs are Screen Printed with Nazdar Enamel and Baked at 180 Degrees 6 - 1/8" Mounting Holes for Ease of Mounting FREE FREIGHT ON ALL HUSKY SIGNS HISTORY OF SIGN: Sinclair adopted its familiar dinosaur theme in the early 1930s. This Pennsylvania Motor Oil sign is from about 1933. In 1896, twenty-year old Harry Sinclair of Independence, Kansas, lost the family drugstore in a speculation just as an oil boom was beginning in the area and turned to selling lumber for oil derricks. On the side he bought and sold oil leases traveling all over southeast Kansas and northeast Indian Territory by train and buggy. By 1907, Sinclair's talent for picking successful oil investments made him the richest man in Kansas. In 1916 he borrowed $20 million from New York bankers to buy up undervalued assets in the Midwest to build new refineries at Kansas City and Chicago connected by a new pipeline and to combine those enterprises with companies he already controlled. Thus, at age thirty-nine, he established the Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation, one of the ten largest American oil companies. With the rapid rise of the automobile, the conversion of ships and railroads from coal to fuel oil, and the coming of World War I, demand surpassed supply and sales soared. In 1930 Sinclair advertising men cooked up a series of magazine and newspaper ads featuring dinosaurs with the idea of emphasizing that the oldest crude oils make the best lubricants. The ads featured several kinds of dinosaurs, but it was the brontosaurus that proved most popular. People called the dinosaur Dino and he became the company mascot. In 1932 Sinclair registered the brontosaurus as a trademark. "Sinclair" is a registered trademark & servicemark of Sinclair Oil Corporation. The sign is reproduced under a license granted by Sinclair Oil Corporation. FREE FREIGHT CONTINENTAL US ONLY Part numbers will show when added to cart. Item Price Shipping Qty Sinclair Penn Motor Oil Sign $111.95 $0.00 12345678910