JC What is the Story - A Rover 8 h.p. using the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin at 25 Nassau Street

[DeAutogids]

Not really...

[Allan L]

Small early electric car being charged via an electrical outlet on the lamp post. Have not been able to locate this vehicle, yet.

You won't remember petrol pumps like that, then?

Sorry - I didn't understand what that meant.  

This is the kind of petrol pump we are looking at, and some of us remember a few still in use in the 1940s/50s



perhaps it was the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.

[Otto Puzzell]

Thanks for that. 

I've seen pumps that are similar (I'm no spring chicken myself), but the location is more akin to where I'd expect a streetlamp.

[DeAutogids]

Think of that as a clue.

[guido66]

Coin operated petrol pump?

[DeAutogids]

I am not sure of that, the article doesn't state it. I would assume not.

Principally speaking, of all the info combined,there is just one piece of the puzzle missing.

[guido66]

The petrol station attendant is missing?

[Wendax]

First self-service petrol station?

[D-type]

 Time for silly questions:  Is the pump powered from the elecric street light 

[Allan L]

I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.

[DeAutogids]

First self-service petrol station?

Almost...

[Otto Puzzell]

I can't see a street light, electric or otherwise.
The pump that's shown would be hand-wound and might have had an illuminated top, but probably did not.

As I've stated elsewhere, my eyesight is rapidly failing. 

[D-type]

First self-service petrol station?

Almost...

Was it a "serve yourself and leave the money in the honesty box" arrangement?

[DeAutogids]

I think all the words are somewhere in the puzzle. It's a matter of combining it.

So location, car and why it is a special picture

[Wendax]

A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first electrically powered petrol pump in Ireland.

[DeAutogids]

Almost there, but you need to change just one word into another word and one place.

[Wendax]

A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first hand powered petrol pump in Dublin.

[DeAutogids]

I feel so bad when I say it's not what I look for, but it has not so much to do with the working of the pump but the place.

[Allan L]

Hard to know what you are after.
"A Rover 8 h.p. at 25 Nassau Street, Dublin using the first roadside petrol pump in the United Kingdom" is a possibility as it is probably before 1927.

[DeAutogids]

I will give it to you, as I was after the first roadside petrol pump in Dublin.