1951 Since Spindletop: A Human Story of Gulf's First Half-Century

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A presentation copy of this work, with a tipped in letter from Gulf Oil Limited, signed by the Managing Director, J. Russell Knowles. 

In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt emblem to the front board.

Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library. 

Illustrated throughout, including a monochrome frontispiece and a folding coloured map. 

A history of the development of Gulf Oil, a major global oil company that operated from 1901-1985 and one of the Seven Sisters oil companies. 

The company celebrates a half century of the company's run, beginning with the output of oil at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas and going on to detail the opening of the world's first drive-in gas station by the company in Pittsburgh.