What’s collectable……and what’s not!
Members of the ACCA (Automobilia Collectors Club of Australia) collect almost any automobile-related items: advertising signs, literature, radiator badges, body badges, identification plates, motoring club badges, mascots, motor meters, hub caps, spark plugs, number plates, manuals, tyre company memorabilia, garage tools and equipment, motoring accessories, pedal cars etc. In addition, most of our members collect the vast range of oil industry-related items such as: petrol pumps, oil bottles tops and racks, oil and grease tins, signs, road maps, ephemera, advertising and associated pieces. This page shows some of the brand names that may be found, not always on the most obvious items.
Some names to look for:
Petrol Companies
- Alba
- AMP/Ampol
- Astron/Major/Burmah
- Atlantic
- Big Tree
- Boral
- BP
- Caltex
- COR
- Esso
- Fina
- FLEETWiNG
- Golden Fleece
- Kangaroo
- Mobil/Mobilgas
- Neptune
- PAX
- Phillips 66
- Plume
- Shell
- Solo
- Texaco
- Total
- Vacuum
- VOCO
- Waratah
Petrol Pumps (Bowsers)
- Epex
- Erie
- ERL
- Fry
- Gilbert and Barker
- Gilbarco
- Hammond
- Hawke
- Jolimont
- Lasco (Larkin)
- Milwaukee
- Oscar Harvey
- Pearce
- Pickrell
- Rapide
- Wayne
- Webking
Lubricants
- Aero
- Black Watch
- Castrol
- Energol
- Fell’s
- Germ Oils (Noyes Bros.)
- Golden Summit
- ILO
- Opaline (Sinclair)
- Pennzoil (Pacific Oil Co)
- Price’s
- Reliance/Reliano
- Valvoline (J Carrigan)
- Veedol
- Vykarol
- …and many others
Spark Plugs
- AC
- Beacon
- Benfords
- Bosch
- Champion
- Defiance
- De-Luxe
- Henry
- KLG
- Liberty
- Lodge
- Macquarie
- Pacy (Wico-Pacy)
- Porter
- Pyrox
- Refex
- Sphinx
- Stevens
- Vesta