Motor Oil In Glass Jars>???

[ULVER]

I found a JAR of Kendall Motor oil, are a flea-market. Pretty cool graphics and stuff.

Trying to date it a bit. I was curious why glass?

Thanks for any help...

 

[labman]

If it was ever popular, it was a long time ago. I never remember seeing it. I do remember service stations having racks of glass bottles of oil with tin screw on spouts. The attendants refilled the bottles from large cans or drums. As I child, I survived my father's loyalty to Sunoco exposing me to the sight of the oil in glass bottles that they tried to dye blue. I still have Dad's bottle and spout that he used to change oil in his Nash with oil from 2 1/2 gallon square cans. Nash used a 327 cubic inch I6.

 

[k1xv]

I too remember the glass quart jars with the spouts in filling stations. They would be filled from a drum, as I recall.

I assumed they used glass so you could see the oil, and glass also is completely inert.

And I also seem to remember attendants inverting oil containers, I guess to reverse stratification and settling out of contents?

My, how things have advanced over the years.

 

[kenw]

glass was easier to make than metal, had no reactions to the oil and:

 

[Jeffrey]

I remember Kendall coming in a tin can, and you had to jam a spout (with a pointed edge to it) into the top of the can in order to open and pour.

 

[kenw]

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Originally posted by Jeffrey:
I remember Kendall coming in a tin can, and you had to jam a spout (with a pointed edge to it) into the top of the can in order to open and pour.

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that was pretty much the case for ANY brand of oil, and many of the "cans" were treated cardstock with the only metal being the top/bottom.

 

[JayhawkRoy]

Kendall put their oil in glass jars during WWII, when the nation was conserving precious (metals, etc) resources to manufacture war materials, so your jar is about that vintage.