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Thu Apr 05 2012 10:39 PM
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I just bought this pump and am trying to figure what the purpose is of the brackets on both sides of the top. Brackets are shown in the attached photo's.
I appreciate any help.
Last edited by Dave's Garage; Fri Apr 06 2012 12:15 AM.
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Nothing in the Wayne literature I have for this pump explains what thay are for, but I would assume they are for showing the lowest price and the highest price for the gasoline, or maybe the lowest octane and the highest octane.
Jack Sim
Last edited by Jack Sim; Thu Apr 05 2012 11:23 PM.
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I think they held a harp or U-shaped sign bracket, no?
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Jim, that may be what the bracket was for too. I would often times see such advertisements on signs visible from a passing motorists line of sight here at Sunoco stations ......... Ed Shaver
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Those side bkts. were designed to hold doublesided advertisements and gas grades that both Sunoco & DX had plans for.   I've seen a few,mostly made of cardboard,and they didn't last very long,due to weathering but I recently found an all metal DX,that fits in there. Here it is on my pump today.    Here's a cardboard..  Here's a link you might want to click that we talked about on here,with vintage youtube commercials showing them too. http://oldgas.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=44722&Number=284084#Post284084
Last edited by coldpizza; Fri Apr 06 2012 07:00 AM.
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About 3 years ago I sold to Tom Buckles a lot of these pumps, that I had taken out of an old closed Sunoco station, and they all had the brackets on them. The owner also had 1 complete assembly that fit into the brackets that included a flat U shaped frame that slipped into the brackets and an assortment of vinyl signs that fit over the frame to advertise various Sunoco items. It went to Indiana with the pumps.
Norm Huff
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