Pratts Motor Oil, Image & Found by Graham Dale.
Found near Huddersfield
One side shows a five pointed star enclosing the words MO[TOR?] PRATTS OIL in three lines PRATTS being underlined.
The other side appears to have Pratts written in a script form underlined by a tail on the s. Above is MOTOR and below is OIL.
The following history is taken from Vintage Garage
"The ANGLO - AMERICAN OIL CO LTD was formed in 1888 and its main business was the shipment of lamp oil branded as 'Royal Daylight' from America to the United Kingdom.
The company was a British affiliate of the Standard Oil Trust which had been set up and run by John D Rockefeller in the USA. The UK head office was situated at Bishopsgate, London and a storage facility was located at Purfleet in Essex. The company later had offices at 36 Queen Anne's Gate London SW3 and other storage facilities. In 1911, following a ruling by the US Supreme Court, the dissolution of the Standard Oil Trust took place. This resulted in over 30 separate companies becoming independent. Standard Oil of New Jersey was one of them and acquired the Anglo-American Oil Company (AAOC).
By this time the AAOC was already importing motor spirit into the UK using the brand name of PRATT'S and as the motor industry started to grow the company introduced different brands - Pratts Motor Spirit sold in cases of 4 x 2 gallon cans, Pratt's Perfection Spirit in green cans, Anglo's Taxibus Spirit for commercial vehicles, Anglo's Benzole - a mixture of coal-tar and petrol, Pratts Ethyl - a mixture of alcohol and petrol, Pratts High Test and straight Pratts. In addition to these brands they also had an aviation brand called 'Aero - Naph' which was sold in sealed PINK 2 gallon cans.
In 1934 re branding took place and the AAOC took a phonetic version of the initials of Standard Oil - "ess_o" and Pratts was no more as the brand of 'ESSO' set out on the road to become a global household name."
