Recent Magazine Issues
The ACCA Magazine is published quarterly and is free to all members of the Club. This page indicates the main content of the more recent issues, most of which run to 36 or 40 pages, with several in full colour. From that you can see what you have missed if you have yet to subscribe!
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Issue 81: October-December 2012
Plume House shaped globes; Garage Gallery: Blythe & Haddleton's Motor Garage; NSW ACCA Annual Get Together; Wartime Oil Company Advertising; Bendigo Swap Meet 2012; Know your Oil Bottle, Tin & Rack - Neptune; Early Shell Oil Rack Signs; 99 Boxes of Oil on the Wall; H.C.Sleigh - the Late Years; ACCA NZ Tour- Member Collections (stops 7 to 10); Early Petrol Fuelled Vulcanizers from Adamson, Lumsden's, Beal, McGraw Tire & Rubber and Ideal Manufacturing; Book Review: The AA Badges of New Zealand; Bodgie items on eBay; Castrol GTX Limited Edition Tin; More Victorian Railway Bridge Advertising; Vale - Col Roberts & Dennis Martin
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Issue 80: July-September 2012
Editorials from the old and new editors; Garage Gallery: Rawling's Service Station at Broken Hill; Non-Carbon Motor Oils (Lubra-Kate and Wellsaline); Harvey Frost Vulcanizers; H.C. Sleigh - the Early Years; Know your Oil Bottle, Tin & Rack - Germ, Houghton's, Kangaroo, KOP, Lexol, Lustre & Ma-Refine; How I started Collecting - the new editor shares his passion; Some very early Neptune items; Online Auction Craziness; Four more Members' Collections from the ACCA New Zealand tour; Railway Bridge Advertising in Victoria; and members snippets...
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Issue 79: April-June 2012
Twentieth Anniversary Issue; AS Webb Garage in Parkes NSW; ACCA's 20th Anniversary Tour of New Zealand's South Island; Service Stations in Queensland and Addington, NZ; The Ballarat Swap Meet 2012; Garage Gallery - a late 1920s Texaco Lubritorium; Know Your Petrol Pump - Wayne 605 Neptune Supermix; Know your Oil Bottle, Tin & Rack - Germ & Golden Fleece; ACCA 20th Anniversary Gathering; Fakes and Fantasies in car badges; Queensland get-together 2012; AC Spark Plugs; Know Your Petrol Pump - Brodribb; Collecting Garage Equipment.
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Issue 78: January-March 2012
Hello from the new President; More on British Trogon; How I started Collecting - a NSW collector who started with a '27 Chevrolet and another who started with a '25 Dodge; Garage Gallery - Ovingham Service Station ca1934; Valvoline Tins; A Waratah painted sign found on a wall in Sydney; a Shell-Mex pump restoration; New Zealand road maps: Texaco and Caltex; Know your petrol pump: the American and the Kroon; The Amoco final filter; Bendigo Swap Meet (November 2011); Know your Oil Bottle, Tin & Rack - Emerald, Energol & Europa; How I started Collecting - a New Zealand collector of plates, badges & signs; More Tyre stuff; Collecting Spark Plugs.
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Issue 77: October-December 2011
New Zealand swap meet; Beaulieu Autojumble (September 2011); Perth Automobilia auction; Aviation Refuelling in the Past; Victoria Get-together for 2011; Castrol Collectables; NSW/ACT Get-together; Know your Oil Bottle, Tin & Rack - Daylube, Decoline, Duckham's & Dynalube; RACV Fly the Flag Tour Badges; New Zealand Road maps - Atlantic Union & Mobil; Why I started Collecting Tyre Stuff; Flowerdale Signs Auction; Collecting Tyre Gauges.
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Issue 76: July-September 2011
A member's USA road trip on Route 66; South Australia's annual Gasfest gathering; Know your Wm. Wakefield & Co petrol pump; A member's obsession with signs; UK's Beaulieu Spring Autojumble; 100 Years of Vacuum's Flying Red Horse; Know Your Castrol Oil Bottles, Tin Tops and Racks; Know your F Horsell petrol pump; Queensland members' annual gathering; Redex containers and dispensing equipment.
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Issue 75: April-June 2011
Toowoomba QLD swap meet report; Beecox petrol pumps; Perth WA swap meet; Motor Manual Goodwill Club car badges; More on Atlantic; Ballarat VIC swap meet report; Know your oil bottle, top and rack - Bear, Blue Ribbon, Big Tree & Trogon; Oil company news; Collecting garage equipment; Collecting vehicle identification plates; Snippets galore.
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Issue 74: January-March 2011
How I Started Collecting article; New Zealand swap meet report; Collecting Garage Equipment; Atlantic Ethyl story; Ampol Road Maps; Know Your Atlantic oil bottle, top and rack; Western Australia annual gathering; Atlantic enamel signs; Esso tiger tales; Gurney's Overland car badges; Bendigo swap meet 1983 memories; Castrol Collectibles; Collecting Car Jacks, Car Care Products; Castrol Oil Fountain; Old USA gas stations. Oklahoma USA swap meet.
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Issue 73: October-December 2010
Valvoline to Wolf's Head Oil bottle tinplate tops; Why I Collect article; Car Care products; ConocoPhillips museum USA; more on Alemite Lubrication Equipment; A unique fuel dispenser; Golden Fleece ram logo story; Plume wooden box-ends; Victorian state get-together; Shell tankers old and new; Independent petroleum brands; Know your oil bottle, top and rack; Collecting Garage Equipment; Tasmania state get-together; Tractor oil by Shell.
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Issue 72: July-September 2010
Vacuum on to Mobil tinplate tops for oil bottles; Alemite lubrication equipment; Beaulieu Autojumble UK, May 2010; Independent petroleum brands; Golden Fleece, Amoco and Liberty road maps; Annual NSW get-together; Illustrated history of Castrol symbols and advertising signs in Australia; Annual SA gathering; Know your Alba, AMP and Ampol oil bottles, tops and racks; NRMA Honour badges.
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Issue 71: April-June 2010
Shell, Texaco and Total tinplate tops for oil bottles; RetroMobile, Paris, January 2010; Lasco petrol pumps; Sydney Super Swap, Hawkesbury, February 2010; Texaco trade displays in NZ in 1920s; Know your 1928-1929 oil bottle, top and rack; Super Southern Swap Meet, Ballarat, February 2010; How a member started collecting; Pop culture and music in petroliana; Petrol tankers in Australia and NZ.
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Issue 70: January-March 2010
Biggest ever ACCA gathering; Oil bottle tinplate tops L to S; Report on Beaulieu Autojumble UK; Report on Christchurch NZ swap meet; Genevieve car badge etc; Know your oil bottle and top; How a member started collecting; Iconic petrol station over 80 years in Perth; Model railway oil tankers; A member's sheds; Neptune Oil Company road maps; Past service stations of Australia; Snippets galore.
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Issue 69: October-December 2009Annual Victoria get-together; Oil bottle tinplate tops C to K; Policy on reproduction signs; Pearce petrol pumps; Castrol collectables; Iconic temple-like service station in Perth 1926; Mystery petrol pump need identification; How a member started collecting; Petrol tankers in Australasia; Unique large lube oil tanks in Australasia; Petrol refuelling over 60 years; Past service stations of Australia; Early Alba and Ampol oil bottles; Snippets galore.
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Issue 68: July-September 2009
Members' sheds; Know your Harvey petrol pump; Report on South Australia annual gathering; Wayne 492 'Corinthian' petrol pump; How three separate members started collecting; Past service stations of Australia; Shell road maps Part 3; Olympic Games 1956 car badges; Castrol collectables; Report on annual auction of signs at Flowerdale VIC; Old oilers; News from the QLD division; Snippets galore.
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Issue 67: April-June 2009Report on Tasmania's inaugural get-together; Mystery Gilbert and Barker petrol pump; Kendall oil items in Australia; How three separate members started collecting; Oil company signs circa 1931 in Brisbane; Member report on visiting collectables in USA; Perth member's early service station; Report on Ballarat and Berwick swap meets in VIC; Past service stations of Australia; Car badges of aviation bodies around Australia; Snippets galore.
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