Lot 533: A Collection of Motoring Bundle Automobilia and Petroliana

A group lot of British automotive collectibles and workshop tins. The collection includes a rectangular green Wakefield Castrol motor oil tin for Hi-Press 140 EP gear oil, featuring a white and red logo with the slogan THE MASTERPIECE IN OILS. A Morris’s Shrewsbury Golden Film 2T 40 motor oil tin is present in a rectangular yellow and blue form with an integrated flexible pouring spout, printed with MANUFACTURED ONLY BY MORRIS’S SHREWSBURY ESTABLISHED 1869 MAKERS OF FINE LUBRICANTS. The set features a yellow bulbous metal Shell oil pourer with a long spout and thumb-pump mechanism; the body displays the Shell pecten logo and FRAM FILTRON FILTER, while the filler cap is stamped BRAIME LEEDS. Also included are two small rectangular spirit tins: a red Shell tin with vertical white lettering and a top stamped 3 1/2d DEPOSIT and PETROLEUM SPIRIT HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE, and a green Pratt’s tin with white script lettering to the front and P P XX to the side, with a top stamped PRATT’S PETROLEUM SPIRIT HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE. Workshop items comprise a small cylindrical Chemico grinding paste tin for automobile valves, printed with directions and COUNTY CHEMICAL CO, and a circular yellow and orange Slipcotize cleaner tin. The lot is completed by a stack of paper promotional ephemera for Esso Heating Oil featuring the red and blue oval logo. The miniature Pratts and Shell cans are new fantasy pieces.