CK Foodstores
Most sites Nisa/Murco co-branded, but one just CK Foodstores https://maps.app.goo.gl/DTTZhZfbeEVqy7fF6 in Tenby
Orbit
Chris’s post of a very rare Orbit sign in the Haynes Motor Museum reminded me that I have this Orbit badge, which must be from the quite brief lifetime of the brand, about 1962–4. I don’t know the full history of Orbit, and there is […]
Metro
Metro Petroleum Ltd was a subsidiary of the A.S. Williams Group, based at Cavendish House in Waterloo, Liverpool*. A.S. Williams (who later became an alderman) had trained as a mining engineer in South Wales and in 1938 enacted a management buyout of the northern operations […]
Gaelic
Gaelic Oil Company was created by Gulf Oil (Great Britain) in 1974, to take over Gulf’s (land-based) Scottish operations in both fuel retailing and more upstream activities. The move was noted by the New York Times as an example of a major international company recognising […]
Gainsborough
Gainsborough was set up by Dr Humfrey Chamberlain and Peter Pettit of Chamberlain & Pettit agricultural merchants in Burkitt’s Lane in Sudbury, 1960 (or just before). I’m assuming it was named after Thomas Gainsborough who was Sudbury’s most famous figure. Initially they used a simple […]
