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COTM Jan 2014 is Kerr-McGee/Deep Rock and their affiliates which include:
Kermac of Oklahoma City, OK acquired 1945
Triangle Refineries Houston,Tx acquired 1957
Southport Oil Corporation Houston,Tx 
Mileage Mart Illinois 1959
Trackside Service Stations Gulfport,Ms 1962
Peoples Oil Company Nashville,Tn 1959
Wallace and Walco Atlanta,Ga 
Mutual Oil Company Birmingham,Al 1985
Golden Rule St.Louis
Sparky-Triangle Brand operating in Alabama
Vaught Oil Company Flora,Il early 1960's
Power Oil Company Macon,Ga 1962
United Oil Company Cape Giradeau,Mo 
Imperial Oil Sommerset,Ky
Tan-T-Kar Stations Birmingham,Al.
Coast Oil Company Shreveport,La
Hiotane 
Kerr-McGee was founded by Robert S. Kerr and others in the Oklahoma City oil fields of Anderson-McGee Drilling in 1929. During the early years they operated a single gas station branded as Phillips 66 which closed during the gas rationing days of WWII. Prior to WWII Phillips geologists Dean McGee joined the company. In 1946 the corporate name was changed to Kerr-McGee. It was also the year that the company entered the retail market having bought Okalhoma City based Harrell Brothers, Yellow Cab gasoline trademark, and replaced it by the KerMac brand. In 1955 Deep Rock Oil Company was purchased. Deep Rock had been around since 1913. At the time of the merger Deep Rock brand appeared on over 1000 stations in 16 Mid-Continetal states. 1957 K-M acquired Triangle Refineries a primarily wholesale operation founded in Abbottsford,WI. in 1937. About this time K-M also bought out Knox Industries of Texas. The Knox brand survived into the 1960's. Thru Triangle KerMac was able to acquire several private brands including Peoples Oil and Milage Mart in 1959; Trackside and Wallace in 1962 along with Power Oil Company, Coast Oil Company and Tan-Kar. The K-M brand as a stand alone first appeared in Oklahoma City in 1965. K-M brand and logo eventually replaced Deep Rock and continues in use today.
This is a very brief histoy of K-M/Deep Rock and their affiliates.
Thanks to Phoenix who was COTM in 2003 and wrote the above.
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I don't have any deep rock stuff but I do have some of the affiliates.

Well, Shawn beat me to the Hiotane. Here are some cans. The Hiolube is Gulfport Oil Corporation, but this one is from Birmingham Alabama. Peoples is Nashville. Peoples cans are hard to find. Do see quite a few of their two gallon cans. Tan-Kar cans are extremely hard to find.

I love the hiolube can I finally have one bought that I'm picking up at Columbia can't wait

Well I only have this one early Deep Rock sign. Its about 2 foot square and is single sided tin.

Here is a deep rock globe I took a picture of last year at the Columbia show

Here is a can I saw at CTO last year

Couple globes Sanford owns

Only Deep Rock item I have. 5 Quart Can.

The pump signs are as i recall from the 40's.Mac Godsey was the DEEP ROCK "tank wagon" man!

Some one dated this on the back--1937.

Believe these are Deep Rock

A few of my Deep Rock items:

Coops I said it before about your a38 and I will say it again simply awesome looking pump

Some quarts

Formerly owned.

Minty fresh out of original box.

Here is my Deep Rock A38. Not as nice as Matts' but I still like it.

Few more.

More

Heres another quart.

That is a killer qt can chad. Here are some of Sanford's deep rock stuff.



Last globe here is a tough globe to find

Here are few globes from Kerr McGee / Deep Rock affiliates.

And a couple of Deep Rock quarts

I will try to get a few more items pictured.

i thought this was a neat sign, it was in the December online Matthews auction and went for, what I think was, a good price (unfortunately I was the backup bidder)

Great start so far let's keep it going

Here's some of my stuff.

A couple more. The Triangle porcelain sign is the first half of the sign. The guy I got it from thought the other half said "Refineries" but the jury is still out as to whether or not it was the KM affiliated one. Wish I could find the other half and some history on it....

D/S tin

Little story on my couple pieces. Got this pump from a classmates Dad. So he tells me a few months later after I had just got the pump he has something to show me. Here he has the original pump plates for it but does not want to sell them. I keep bugging him then one day I swing by his place and he then tells me he has something else. You guest it the globe. Here he had bought this pump from the original station when it closed. So we make a deal and here it is all back together again. Then this summer I am at an auction with my young daughter and we are looking at boxes on a trailer and I stumble on this thermometer from the same station the pump came from. What are the odds!

My Deep Rock 2-sided sign - 76"H x 57"W

This sign is very similar if not the same type sign hanging at my grandfather's gas station in 1950 seen below.

A Kerr McGee 3/8 plastic sign I picked up at an auction in OK. I'm sure it is one lens piece of two for a florescent lit sign.

My Deep Rock plates.

Deep Rock--dated 1927 on the back!

Here's a few Deep Rock Salt & Pepper shakers

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Few cans.