(2) Metal Texaco Signs. One rectangular, the other round. One says Fire Chief Gasoline, with the texaco logo and a red fireman hat. The other has just the texaco logo. 

Condition: Commensurate with age. 

Largest: 12 x 18 in. 

#7998 . 

Texaco, Inc. (“The Texas Company”) is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel “Texaco with Techron.” It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to Shell plc through its American division. Texaco began as the “Texas Fuel Company,” founded in 1902 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil. To accomplish this, Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company in 1902, as a group of investors affiliated with The Texas Fuel Company. Men such as John W. (“Bet A Million”) Gates invested in “certificates of interest” to an amount of almost ninety thousand dollars. Future restructuring would merge Producers Oil Company and The Texas Fuel Company as Texaco when the company needed additional funding, which J.W. Gates provided in the amount of approximately $590,000 in return for company stock. Texaco was one of the “Seven Sisters” which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid 1940s to the 1970s. Its current logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.” The company was headquartered in Harrison, New York, near White Plains prior to the merger with Chevron. Prior to 2005 Texaco gasoline contained their proprietary CleanSystem3, but now comes with Techron, an additive developed by Chevron. Although Texaco is most common in the United States, Latin America, and West Africa, it has a presence in Europe as well, with over 900 Texaco-branded service stations in the United Kingdom.

Commensurate with age.