Cost Of Petrol

[SIRandyraven]

Approx what year would petrol have been 17p a gallon ?

[Jackdaw33]

1981/2 would be my guess.

[paddywak]

In 1965 I worked part time as a petrol attendant (no self service in those days) and shell super the four star equivalent was 4/11p per gallon which is I think 24P per gallon.

[Prudie]

My OH wonders if it's a Volvo Amazon and I was thinking didn't foreign cars over here have the yellow number plate long before we did?

[Togo]

Is the white motor a Jag? If it is the plates may not match the year. The owner could have renewed the plates or it has been repatriated.

[jno]

white car might be a Rover. I can't see the van, it's got lettering on top of it

[Jackdaw33]

Chico's table shows average price of 160p for 1981/2.

[jno]

that would be something like this but maybe a year or three earlier with less chrome on the tail lights

http://www.taysideclassiccarclub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GordonSmith1.jpg

[Buenchico]

If the price quoted is 'per litre', rather than 'per gallon', then (after converting to a 'per gallon' figure), the AA link suggests the mid-1970s.

[EDDIE51]

In the first 'oil crisis' 1973? Petrol stations introduced a £2 only rule. A customer had to pay £2 and the pump stopped when the £2 worth was dispensed. That was 6 gallons.So 33. 3p or 3/8d a gallon. If your tank could not take 6 gallons you just got whatever would fit in. I had a Triumph Herald it had a 6 gallon tank.I had to make sure the tank was very near empty or I could not get my full £2 worth in.

[Davemano]

In the early days of decimalisation, didn't filling stations display the old price in shillings and pence as well as the price per litre in p?

[jno]

33.3p wasn't 3s 8d, Eddie?

[Buenchico]

^^^ A third of a pound = 6s 8d

[Davemano]

Eddie probably meant 6s 8p

[Togo]

More like 6s & 8d

[Old_Geezer]

I'd estimate sometime in the fifties. The seventies doesn't sound reasonable unless the price rocketed up faster than I recall that decade. Like about x13.

[EDDIE51]

Yes 6 shillings and 8 pence, my conversion was wrong. I normally put in 50p worth at a time in those days when the £2 only rule was not in force.
One time I remember queuing for my £2 worth, there was a huge Bentley behind me. We had to queue for at least 10 mins, when the Bentley driver tried to put his £2 worth (6 gallons) he only got 1 gallon in before the tank overflowed. So that gallon cost him £2 in 1973 !!!. His tank must have been full to the brim when he started to queue , serves him right for being greedy.