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KJV Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
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...stainless top, or painted?...what make/model is it?
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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SS top (has old blue paint on it right now), corners, trim, etc. It's a Bennett and I could have swore the tag said model 86 but Jack's book shows this pump as model 85. I'll have to clean the tag and read it more carefully tomorrow.
Mike
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KJV Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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...looks like an Erie dial face, but hard to tell for sure...when they sold these to farmers for rural accounts they often pieced together what worked from the boneyard...
...is the stainless top on this pump different from the one on your clockface?...I think I have this top, but don't know for sure what pump it goes on...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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It does have Erie faces but tagged as a Bennett. Rich Burris and his Dad came over this evening and looked at it. They said they had a Bennett just like this one years ago and it also had the same Erie faces. It is the exact same top and same pump all together as my other Bennett clock GOC pump.
Mike
KJV Psalms 16:11
Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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I sold that exact pump (With the little doors and emblems) at Dixie Gas in the spring, Mine also was a Bennett with Erie Faces
"Remember, history that is forgotten is doomed to repeat itself!"
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I gutted the pump today. The tag says Bennett model 86. The reason for the Erie faces appears to be because of a possible Erie computer? It is not like any veeder root I've seen on any pump. I see no veeder root markings on it anywhere either. It's definitely a strange looking and different computer. I think that would explain the other 2 here that were Bennett's with the same Erie faces as well. I guess Bennett was buying some meters from Erie and using their faces in the 1930's.
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KJV Psalms 16:11
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in thy presence is fulness of joy;
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
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OR ERIE had a very large order from GULF & contracted BENNETT to help fill the order by deadline. Would also explain the same body style by 2 pump companies.
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Always looking for Ithaca Gun and Lucky Sam soda items!!!
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great story, ten+ years is a long time to wait for a pump.
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Nice bit of history there guys!
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OR ERIE had a very large order from GULF & contracted BENNETT to help fill the order by deadline. Would also explain the same body style by 2 pump companies. ...that body style was spec'd by Gulf Oil, and was used by the different pump companies who had contracts to provide pumps for Gulf Oil...the sheet metal and 'profile' would be the same no matter who made the pump, the details (stainless trim, nozzle fork, nozzle return bezel, on/off switch position, etc.) weren't spec'd and would differ between each company as they would use what they had...I have pumps made by National, Erie, Bennett, Gilbarco, and Tokheim - they all have the same tops and sheet metal, but differ in the ways mentioned above - and they don't have the same faces... ...the faces were replaced for their 'second life' as a farm pump...they weren't sent from the manufacturer brand new with a different companies' face on them... ...Phil McCauley has been looking for a side panel to a Gulf pump (under For Sale, Wanted) - the pump itself is much older than the pump face shown in the photos...the pump was reimaged in the late 1950's-early 1960's, that explains the later face on the earlier pump...the face removed from that pump would have sat around the jobber's boneyard, and picked up to replace a faded/missing face on a pump for a rural farm account...
Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...
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I have seen those pumps with ID Tags from Tokheim Bennett National Erie Show me the guts and I will tell you who's they are. All the ones I ever owned had a VEEDER ROOT computer in them. As far as I know Veeder Root was the only computer that had THAT face plate hole configuration. The Computer should look like this one if it is origional to the pump.....maybe not so clean.   Put the wrong one in at first...DUH & D'OH This is an Erie meter, there was Also an older model w/ a slightly differently domed head...more round  An Erie meter has great gears in it...they can be used in construction of clocks. Well worth stripping out for possible future use. You guys GOT to stop trashing all the good stuff!!!!! Just those to gears would cost a chunk to BUY them. Who knows I might come out with a HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN CLOCK BOOK ....someday Oh yea..... I have had a few of those pumps that had aluminum faces. They had trays and side stairstep trim just like a 36-B.
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Is it a non-computer? I am curious to see what is in there
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GF,
..the faces were replaced for their 'second life' as a farm pump...they weren't sent from the manufacturer brand new with a different companies' face on them..
Why would a jobber or re-builder swap out only the faces when most of the time he furnished the pump for farmer to use ? Farmers didn't care if the meter worked, but pump had to work. Most farmers filled the tractor/truck or a couple of cans [if tractor was left in field] before heading to the field.
I have removed many many pumps from farms/ranches where the meter [Clock & VR] had been disconnected & sight glasses by-passed.
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