Sohio Ethyl Gasoline Laser Cut Out Reproduction Motor Oil Steel Sign

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Sohio Ethyl Gasoline Laser Cut Out Reproduction Motor Oil Steel Sign
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15x17.8
18g Steel.  This Sign Has Eyelets. Made In The USA.
New Reproduction.
Painted High quality  Sign.
Ready for hanging in that Barn, Den, Garage, Hobby, Railroad Room.
TRVG1996S
From Wiki:
The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) was an American oil company, founded by John D. Rockefeller in Cleveland. Standard Oil partnered with British Petroleum, in the development of the Prudhoe Bay, Alaska petroleum reserves and the construction of the Trans Alaska pipeline. The complex partnership called for a gradual stock acquisition until British petroleum would eventually gain controlling interest culminating in total acquisition of the American company.
Standard Oil continued as a separate entity after the antitrust breakup the oil conglomerate's monopoly in 1911. It operated service stations under the "Sohio" brand name in Ohio but was prohibited in using the Standard name in other states. In nearby states, it used the "Boron" brand name instead, but with an otherwise-similar logo. Wallace Trevor Holliday was President of the company from 1928 to 1949 and Chairman of the Board from 1949 until his death on November 7, 1950.
In 1968, Sohio's CEO, Charlie Spahr, arranged a merger with British Petroleum. It was announced as Standard's acquisition of British Petroleum's North American interests. However, the contract included a stipulation that British Petroleum would assume majority interest when Standard's share of production from the Prudhoe Bay oilfield in Alaska reached 600,000 barrels per day (95,000 m3/d). That occurred in 1978, and British Petroleum then took control of Standard Oil. The U.S. operations were unified under the BP America corporate name. By 1991, BP had rebranded all Sohio retail stations as BP, except for some marine fuel outlets.[2]
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Stations
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Sohio subsidiaries
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Hospitality Motor Inns
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Photo gallery
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References
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External links
Stations
By 1980, Sohio and Boron had 3,400 gas stations in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and West Virginia. Sohio acquired 5,660 former Gulf stations as a result of FTC anti-trust limitations in Chevron's 1985 takeover of Gulf. These stations, bought for billion, were in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. Sohio was allowed to use the "Gulf" name for five years after the acquisition.
By the end of 1985, all other Standard Oil descendants had minimized use of the name Standard, following Standard Oil of Indiana renaming itself Amoco earlier in the year as well as Chevron's aforementioned merger with Gulf that same year that led to its official corporate name to change from Standard Oil of California to Chevron Corporation. As a result, in 1987 Standard of Ohio, proud to be the original corporate component of Standard Oil, sought to corporately rebrand itself under the Standard name, while continuing to use the Sohio brand in Ohio. However, later that year BP bought the 45% of Sohio it did not already own and assumed control. Among the first changes was the rebranding of all Sohio, Boron, & Gulf stations that it owned to 'BP' in 1991. Among the conversions included former Mobil stations in Western Pennsylvania (including Pittsburgh) that Standard of Ohio acquired in 1987 when Mobil left that market, most of which had just rebranded as Boron when they were converted to BP.[3][4]
The Boron name was used outside of Ohio in neighboring states, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and West Virginia. Boron was also the branding of its premium grade gasoline along with its regular grade fuel "Extron" (formerly "Ex-tane" later "Octron") and its unleaded version "Cetron" introduced in 1970.
Sohio's credit cards, like other oil company cards at the time, could be used at competitors' stations outside the issuing company's competitive territory, which in Sohio's case was Ohio. The benefit died with the Sohio brand. Exxon had a similar arrangement as well. In 1916, Sohio introduced a prefabricated canopy prototype for its stations.[5]
Although Sohio gas stations have ceased to exist, a few marina gas stations on Lake Erie and the Ohio River still bear the Sohio name.
When BP merged with Amoco, its American headquarters moved from the former BP America Building on Public Square in Cleveland to Chicago. Its American headquarters have since moved to the Houston Energy Corridor in Houston, Texas, in line with the corporate offices of Shell Oil Company and fellow Standard spinoffs ConocoPhillips & Marathon Oil.
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