Check The Oil! - Map articles
Check The Oil! magazine has two regular columns that are directly related to the topic of this Website. Letter from Europe looks at the relatively undeveloped Petroliana collecting scene in Europe and also at the history of European Petrol Companies. Dave Leach's regular map column covers Oil Company Road Maps from the USA and also internationally, including Europe.
Dave Leach's Map Column
Date | Description |
Fall 2016 | Barnsdall: America's First Refiner? |
Early 2016 (34-03) | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Journey ends - Collectors Stories |
Late 2015 (34-02) | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: 2000: A New Century...A New Way |
Mid-2015 (34-01) | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Nineties - A New Era Begins |
Spring 2015 (33-04) | Sigma maps; and 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Eighties - Maps for Sale |
Fall 2014 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Seventies - How could this be? |
Summer 2014 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Sixties - Oil Company Maps at 50! |
Spring 2014 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Fabulous Fifties, and Stock covers |
Winter 2013/4 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Forties - A Decade of Change |
Fall 2013 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Art Deco and Art Moderne |
June/July 2013 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Golden Age |
Spring 2013 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Some 20s Gems |
December 2012 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: 1920s Experimentation |
October 2012 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: A.W. Harris, Pioneer |
August 2012 | 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Beginning |
May 2012 | Travelaide Map & Directory |
March 2012 | George Washington Bicentennial |
January 2012 | Civil War Sesquicentennial |
November 2011 | Wolf's Head (and Wolverine-Empire) |
September 2011 | Savannah Based companies: SOC & Colonial |
June/July 2011 | Mobil - World Tour |
May 2011 | Mobil - The Flying Red Horse's 100th birthday |
March 2011 | Red Head |
December 2010 | Smith Oils of Rockford, Ill |
Oct/Nov 2010 | Tesoro maps from Alaska |
June 2010 & Aug/Sept 2010 | No road map articles |
April 2010 | Maverik |
February 2010 | Views of China |
December 2009 | No road map articles |
October 2009 | Pennsylvania Turnpike |
August 2009 | Early Travel Promotion |
June/July2009 | Promoting Travel: the Touring Service |
Mar/April 2009 | No road map articles |
Jan/Feb. 2009 | Corypenn |
Nov. 2008 | Serve Yourself Gas Stations | Sept. 2008 | Bay State (and Interstate) |
July 2008 | Douglas |
May 2008 | No road map articles |
March 2008 | Higrade (Waite Phillips) |
Jan. 2008 | White Star |
Nov. 2007 | Canfield |
Sept. 2007 | Florida maps from Northern companies |
July 2007 | Maps with Oil Company advertising inside |
May 2007 | Gates Oil of Denver, and Lilly White of Lima, OH |
March 2007 | Road map finds 2006 |
Jan. 2007 | Penna Independent Oil Co (Pennico) |
Nov. 2006 | Agip |
Sept. 2006 | No road map articles |
July 2006 | No article from Dave Leach, but Letter from Europe looked at 1930s Shell maps from Germany. |
May 2006 | Map finds of 2005 |
March 2006 | Recent Service Station location maps |
Jan. 2006 | No road map articles |
Nov. 2005 | Mexico (and Pemex) |
Sept. 2005 | No road map articles |
July 2005 | California Pacific International Exposition Maps, 1935 |
May 2005 | No road map articles |
March 2005 | Map finds of 2004 |
Jan. 2005 | The Esso Portable Map Library |
Nov. 2004 | Ten Years of the Map Column: a review |
Sept. 2004 | Jenney road atlases |
July 2004 | Gulf Oil special maps (2) |
May 2004 | Gulf Oil special maps (1): strip, tour and trip guides |
March 2004 | Road map finds 2003 |
Jan. 2004 | Keystone maps |
Nov. 2003 | Billups - "the sign of the hand" |
Sept. 2003 | New York state independent brands |
Jul. 2003 | No road map articles |
May 2003 | Multi-branded maps |
Mar. 2003 | Road map finds 2002 |
Jan. 2003 | Co-op maps |
Nov. 2002 | Home Oil |
Sept. 2002 | Cities Service & affiliates |
Jul. 2002 | U.S. history oil company maps |
May 2002 | Deep Rock |
Mar. 2002 | Road map finds 2001 |
Jan. 2002 | Animals on maps |
Nov. 2001 | Leonard |
Sept. 2001 | Small oil companies - K, L |
Jul. 2001 | Hess |
May 2001 | Richfield Oil Corp. of New York |
Mar. 2001 | Road map finds 2000 |
Dec. 2000 | Current German road maps |
Oct. 2000 | Caltex International maps |
Aug. 2000 | Small oil companies - G, H, I |
Jun. 2000 | Union 76 - Part 2 |
Apr. 2000 | Union 76 - Part 1 |
Feb. 2000 | 20th Century road maps |
Dec. 1999 | Sunoco |
Oct. 1999 | Road map finds |
Aug. 1999 | Gas stations on maps |
Jun. 1999 | Small oil companies - D, E, F |
Apr. 1999 | Cartoons on maps |
Feb. 1999 | Ashland & affiliates - Part 3 |
Dec. 1998 | Ashland & affiliates - Part 2 |
Oct. 1998 | Ashland & affiliates - Part 1 |
Aug. 1998 | Credit cards on maps |
Jun. 1998 | no road map articles |
Apr. 1998 | Small oil companies - A, B, C |
Feb. 1998 | Rotary |
Dec. 1997 | Miniature road maps |
Oct. 1997 | Petrofina |
Aug. 1997 | Oil company road atlases - Part 2 |
Jun. 1997 | Oil company road atlases - Part 1 |
Apr. 1997 | Freedom Oil Company |
Feb. 1997 | Shell international maps |
Dec. 1996 | Interpreting print quantity codes |
Oct. 1996 | Oil company overprints on maps |
Aug. 1996 | Road maps with station locations |
Jun. 1996 | no road map articles |
Apr. 1996 | Atlantic Refining Company |
Feb. 1996 | Refiners Oil Company |
Nov. 1995 | Husky |
Sep. 1995 | World's Fair maps |
Jul. 1995 | Midwest Map Company |
May 1995 | Oil Association maps |
Mar. 1995 | Jobber and local station maps |
Jan. 1995 | Early Gulf maps (pre 1930) |
Nov. 1994 | General road map history |
Dec. 1990** | Complete sets of road maps |
Aug. 1990** | Scenic cover road maps |
June 1987** | Collecting road maps |
** The first three articles were not written by Dave Leach but by Noel Levy.
Thanks to Mark Greaves for collating this list to 2003 and - of course - to Dave Leach for writing the articles in the first place.
Text and layout © Ian Byrne, 2003-16
All original copyrights in logos and map extracts and images are acknowledged and images are included on this site for identification purposes only.