A driver and his fuel tanker truck in Texas circa 1920's

            The first forms of fuel delivery were horse drawn vehicles that carried barrels to their delivery points. Slow and unsafe, this severely limited the growth of the petroleum industry. But after 1880, tank wagons with fuel containers on the back increased the capacity, even though they were still horse-drawn. In 1910, Standard Oil began using motorized tankers. Other companies followed suit.

However, as innovations increased, oil companies began utilizing railroads and underground pipelines to transport more fuel, farther and faster. Tank trucks were used for shorter distance fuel transport, and became increasingly popular in the early 1900s. The first tanker was invented in 1905 by a company called Anglo-American, a subsidiary of Standard Oil.

n the 1920’s, these trucks began displaying the names of the companies whose oil they were transporting.

The tanks were originally round, and occasionally rectangular. The cylindrical and elliptical-shaped tanks we’re familiar with today were created during World War 1. By the end of the war, all tanks were reconfigured to one of the two shapes, both for tank trucks and tank cars that brought fuel by rail.

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