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Zoute Sale - Bonhams
Estimated : € 6.000 - 8.000
Sold for € 8.960
Zoute Grand Prix 2024
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2024
"Gilbarco" metered fuel pump for "Gulf" oil company. Restored, in blue and orange. Complete with its glass globe, contemporary production. 220-volt lighting system for the globe and façades. American production, 1950s. Cast iron base, corners and dome, lacquered sheet steel sides.
Height 190 cm including globe
Gulf Oil Company signs like this are collector's items these days. I remember the Gulf gas stations as being common decades ago. Gulf Oil Corporation ceased to exist as an independent company in 1985, when it merged with Standard Oil of California. I found this sign on the side of a small building in Greene County, Ohio just north of Xenia.
One-off Gulf livery for 2021 Monaco Grand Prix celebrating a relationship that dates back to the 1960's.
One-off Gulf livery for 2021 Monaco Grand Prix celebrating a relationship that dates back to the 1960's.
One-off Gulf livery for 2021 Monaco Grand Prix celebrating a relationship that dates back to the 1960's.
1940's Gulf Station, now Citgo along US 70 at Lonoke, AR
1930's Gulf service station along Business US 30 in Bedford, Pennsylvania.
Former Gulf station now auto repair shop south of Wooster, OH
Looks like a modified Gulf station along US 67 in Malvern, AR
Tokheim Gulf and Route 66 gas near Ravenden, Arkansas
One of the most exciting aerobatic aircraft of all time was the Grumman Gulfhawk II, built by Grumman in Bethpage, Long Island, for the Gulf Oil Companies. It was delivered to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, in December 1936, to be used by Major Alfred "Al" Williams, former naval aviator and Marine, who at the time was head of Gulf’s aviation department.
This sturdy little biplane nearly matched the F3F standard Navy fighter that was operational at that time. The Gulfhawk II was powered by a Wright Cyclone R-1820-GI 1,000-hp engine equipped with a three-blade Hamilton-Standard propeller. The wings, of unequal span and like those of the earlier F2F-1, were constructed of aluminum spars and ribs and were fabric-covered. The fuselage was monocoque construction covered with a 0.032-inch aluminum alloy, and could accommodate only the pilot. Modifications were made in the construction withstand the high-load factors encountered during aerobatics, and the aircraft was equipped for inverted flying for periods of up to half an hour.
The Gulfhawk II was painted bright orange, with the fuselage having blue trim and the wings black-edged white stripes radiating rearward and outward on the top surface of the upper wing and the bottom surface of the lower wing.
For twelve years, from 1936 to 1948, the plane thrilled many an air show spectator throughout the United States and Europe. It was a feature attraction at such meets as the Cleveland Air Races, the Miami All-America Air Show, and the New York World's Fair, demonstrating precision aerobatics and the then-new technique of dive bombing.
In 1938 the Gulfhawk II was crated and shipped to Europe. Aviation enthusiasts in England, France, Holland, and Germany were treated to Major Williams’ daring maneuvers in the colorful little biplane. During this overseas visit the only other person ever to fly the Gulfhawk II, the famous German World War I ace Ernst Udet, piloted the aircraft over Germany. In exchange, Major Williams became the first American to fly the vaunted Messerschmitt 109.
The Gulfhawk II was also used as a flying laboratory. A new pilot's throat microphone was tried out in it in 1937, and during Word War II, the Gulfhawk II was used to test oils, fuels, and lubricants under extreme operating conditions.
Many aviation cadets viewed the aircraft during its three-month tour of flight-training fields in 1943. Major Williams made the tour at the request of Gen. H. H. Arnold to demonstrate airmanship and precision aerobatic flying.
On October 11, 1948, the Gulfhawk II made its last flight. At Washington National Airport, Major Williams took his plane through a demonstration of aerobatics, and then taxied to a strip adjacent to the airport administration building where he shut off the engine and removed the stick, formally decommissioning the historical airplane. It was then presented to the Smithsonian Institution and became part of the National Air and Space Museum’s collection. Source: airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/grumman-g-22
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Abandoned Gulf station along old US 65 in McGehee, Arkansas
