Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company
Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila SA, (El Águila for short, called in English the Mexican Eagle Oil Company or Mexican Eagle Petroleum Corporation, was a Mexican oil company in the 20th century. The company, established in 1909, produced and commercialised gasoline and lubricants until it was absorbed by the Royal Dutch Shell in 1959.
Weetman Pearson, founder
Rail tank car of the company, 1914
Fuel oil railway tank car. Fifteen tons capacity. Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Company. London, 1914
MV San Demetrio reached the Clyde in 1940 with a cargo of aviation spirit despite having been damaged by shellfire from the Admiral Scheer
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Shell Centre headquarters in London
Shell benzine for Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Antarctic Expedition 1915
Royal Dutch Petroleum dock in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), c. 1925
Shell tank truck from 1926 based on a Ford Model TT