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Date: 5 Nov 1996 121410 -0700
From: "David Banks" <david_banks@qmail.gdt.com>
Subject: RM Some Oil Co info (long)
After some digging around, I found the following that was on the telecom group, of all places (due to the similarities between breaking up AT&T and Standard Oil)
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The Atlantic Refining Company was founded in 1866 in Pennsylvania as the Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company. In 1870 it was renamed Atlantic Refining. It became an affiliate of the Standard Oil Trust in 1874, and was separated from the Trust in 1911. In 1966, Atlantic purchased the independent Richfield Oil Company (California), founded as the Rio Grande Oil Company in 1905. After Atlantic's purchase of Richfield, many stationsof both companies were renamed Arco, over several years. In 1969, Atlantic-Richfield purchased Sinclair Oil, founded in 1916 by Henry F. Sinclair. I don't think that every Sinclair station became an Arco station, as I've seen the Sinclair dinosaur logo throughout the 1970's and 80's.
In 1969, Atlantic-Richfield purchased Sinclair Oil, founded in 1916 by Henry F. Sinclair. I don't think that every Sinclair station became an Arco station, as I've seen the Sinclair dinosaur logo throughout the 1970's and 80's.
The Anti-Trust Division required them to divest Sinclair marketing operations in a number of areas as a condition for approval of the merger, and these were acquired by some group. The present Sinclair is no relations to the earlier Sinclair except that its genesis was in the Sinclair stations Arco was required to divest and the trade marks that went with the Sinclair name. I don't believe the corporate name was originally "Sinclair", but it is now. There are Sinclair operations in many states, mostly to the north and west of Louisiana. I have seen them in Arkansas, and they are at least fairly common in Oklahoma. (A Sinclair dealer in Ardmore, Oklahoma, found one of the old round "Sinclair" signs somewhere and uses it as the main sign in front of his station.) Their territory extends into Colorado and Utah, and probably many other Rocky Mountain states.
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It seems to me in Ohio that 'Standard Oil' referred to Standard Oil of Ohio. The same company did/does business here in the Chicago area under the name 'Sohio'. A Mobil station near my house has been 'Mobil' for about twenty years. The dealer, who has been there much longer than that said he started as 'Sinclair' then one day his marketing rep came in to visit and said, "From now on we are going to be Mobil stations in this territory ...". All the old signs came down and new ones went up, but the same people he had always dealt with continued to be around. He said this happened back about 1975 or so and at the time the sales rep told him to go ahead and take either Sinclair credit cards or Mobile credit cards, ... 'it does not matter eitherway, they get handled by the credit card office which does all the Standard Oil Companies ...' (which was in Chicago previously, but about that time breaking into two parts i.e. Amoco and some others to Raleigh, NC and 'Standard' setting up a new credit card back office in Des Moines, Iowa). Then a few years later the configuration changed again with Amoco putting its credit card operation in Des Moines where 'Standard Oil' was located along with *certain types* of Diner's Club cards (!) (the ones they called 'Torch Club' at that time) and other 'special billing' accounts such as the US Government GSA credit cards, Greyhound, large truck fleets, etc. Meanwhile, other stations which had been 'Sinclair' suddenly became 'Arco' as in Atlantic-Richfield Oil Commpany which is headquartered in Independence, Kansas.
A reader wrote to me saying that in his town for several years, an Amoco station sat right next to a Standard station and he never had known why that was. Then one day the Standard station changed to a Socony (Standard Oil New York) station and the Sinclair station in another part of town became a Mobil station which in turn sat across the street from another Mobil station which had always been there under that name. When traveling, his out of state license platesallowed him to use any of two or three oil credit cards at any station under those names but in his home town he was only allowed to use the card specific to the station he was at.
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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 152010 -0500
From: "Michael King" <mking@ilcnet.com>
Subject: Re RM Re RM- Re- RM- New List of
If I remember correctly, the remaining remnants of the original Standard Oil Company include --EXXON (Esso, Enco), formerly Standard of NJ; --Amoco (Standard, American), formerly Standard of Indiana (after merging with Standard of Illinois); --SOHIO, formerly Standard of Ohio; --Boron, formerly Standard of Pennsylvania; --Mobil, formerly Standard of NY; - --Chevron (Chevron-Standard), formerly Standard of California. Texaco is the old Texas Oil Company, ARCO (Atlantic Richfield) is the old Sinclair Oil Company.