National Benzole Mixture

National Benzole was a petroleum brand used in the United Kingdom from 1919 to the 1960s. In 1957 the National Benzole Co. became wholly owned by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. but continued its separate trading identity. In the early 1960s National Benzole was re-branded as National and continued trading as a UK retailer of petroleum products until the early 1990s, when the brand was phased out by parent company BP.

WWI Benzole extraction plants were installed alongside the coke ovens at collieries, gasworks, steelworks, and tar distilleries for the manufacture of T.N.T. and other explosives. After the war a market developed for benzole blended with petrol as a motor spirit. The National Benzole Co. was formed as a co-operative selling organisation by the benzole producers; the company obtained its petrol requirements from Anglo-Persian Oil Co..

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National Benzole was a petroleum brand used in the United Kingdom from 1919 to the 1960s. In 1957 the National Benzole Co. became wholly owned by Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. but continued its separate trading identity. In the early 1960s National Benzole was re-branded as National and continued trading as a UK retailer of petroleum products until the early 1990s, when the brand was phased out by parent company BP.

WWI Benzole extraction plants were installed alongside the coke ovens at collieries, gasworks, steelworks, and tar distilleries for the manufacture of T.N.T. and other explosives. After the war a market developed for benzole blended with petrol as a motor spirit. The National Benzole Co. was formed as a co-operative selling organisation by the benzole producers; the company obtained its petrol requirements from Anglo-Persian Oil Co..

Subject ID: 111339

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