Author Topic: JC What is the Story - A Rover 8 h.p. using the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin at 25 Nassau Street (Read 1830 times)

DeAutogids · « **Reply #25 on:** May 20, 2011, 05:50:39 AM »

Not really...

Allan L · « **Reply #26 on:** May 20, 2011, 08:40:42 AM »

Quote from: DeAutogids on May 20, 2011, 05:00:57 AM

Quote from: Allan L on April 26, 2011, 08:32:38 AM
Quote from: whcgt on April 12, 2011, 12:43:10 AM
Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.
You won't remember petrol pumps like that, then?

Quote from: Otto Puzzell on May 20, 2011, 05:05:37 AM

Sorry - I didn't understand what that meant. $:-\$

This is the kind of petrol pump we are looking at, and some of us remember a few still in use in the 1940s/50s

perhaps it was the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #27 on:** May 20, 2011, 09:29:11 AM »

Thanks for that.

I've seen pumps that are similar (I'm no spring chicken myself), but the location is more akin to where I'd expect a streetlamp.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #28 on:** May 20, 2011, 09:30:51 AM »

Think of that as a clue.

guido66 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 20, 2011, 12:35:24 PM »

Coin operated petrol pump?

DeAutogids · « **Reply #30 on:** May 20, 2011, 12:36:35 PM »

I am not sure of that, the article doesn't state it. I would assume not.

Principally speaking, of all the info combined,there is just one piece of the puzzle missing.

guido66 · « **Reply #31 on:** May 20, 2011, 12:38:37 PM »

The petrol station attendant is missing?

Wendax · « **Reply #32 on:** May 20, 2011, 02:57:25 PM »

First self-service petrol station?

D-type · « **Reply #33 on:** May 24, 2011, 10:20:18 AM »

Time for silly questions: Is the pump powered from the elecric street light

Allan L · « **Reply #34 on:** May 24, 2011, 02:16:37 PM »

I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #35 on:** May 25, 2011, 03:10:01 AM »

Quote from: Wendax on May 20, 2011, 02:57:25 PM

First self-service petrol station?

Almost...

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #36 on:** May 25, 2011, 05:00:10 AM »

Quote from: Allan L on May 24, 2011, 02:16:37 PM

I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.

As I've stated elsewhere, my eyesight is rapidly failing.

D-type · « **Reply #37 on:** May 25, 2011, 06:37:29 PM »

Quote from: DeAutogids on May 25, 2011, 03:10:01 AM

Quote from: Wendax on May 20, 2011, 02:57:25 PM
First self-service petrol station?
Almost...

Was it a "serve yourself and leave the money in the honesty box" arrangement?

DeAutogids · « **Reply #38 on:** May 26, 2011, 04:28:50 AM »

I think all the words are somewhere in the puzzle. It's a matter of combining it.

So location, car and why it is a special picture

Wendax · « **Reply #39 on:** May 26, 2011, 05:04:46 AM »

A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first electrically powered petrol pump in Ireland.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #40 on:** May 26, 2011, 06:18:41 AM »

Almost there, but you need to change just one word into another word and one place.

Wendax · « **Reply #41 on:** May 26, 2011, 06:37:25 AM »

A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first hand powered petrol pump in Dublin.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #42 on:** May 26, 2011, 06:43:22 AM »

I feel so bad when I say it's not what I look for, but it has not so much to do with the working of the pump but the place.

Allan L · « **Reply #43 on:** May 26, 2011, 07:10:11 AM »

Hard to know what you are after.
"A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first roadside petrol pump in the United Kingdom" is a possibility as it is probably before 1927.

DeAutogids · « **Reply #44 on:** May 26, 2011, 08:11:14 AM »

I will give it to you, as I was after the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.

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Author Topic: JC What is the Story - A Rover 8 h.p. using the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin at 25 Nassau Street (Read 1830 times)