Personnel Learn To Handle
Highly Volatile Gasoline

With two new refineries on stream, the seven Sinclair manufacturing units produced, together with the "natural" gasoline plants, about 7,500 barrels of gasoline each day. The company now was required, without previous experience, to haul this volatile distillate all over mid-America, store it, and deliver it safely through crowded city streets. The technology of gasoline transport, however, was primitive.

Sinclair engineers and craftsmen solved by common sense the problems of high-speed, safe transfer of flammable liquids. Sinclair's shops designed and made hose connections, pumping systems, valves, nozzles and compartmented tanks. Truck manufacturers supplied a chassis, on which Sinclair mounted its own equipment. Safety procedures evolved by trial and error, each practical idea quickly permeating the system via the private telegraph or the personnel publication of the time, Sinclair Oils.

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