Yes that was Mobiloil logo.
Cleveland Discol and Blue Star filling stations that I worked at p/t when at grammar school. Blue Star provided my first fuel card (credit cards were rare then) when I worked in London.
Amoco and Texaco two more brands.
Carrefour had two forecourts in the UK before selling out to ASDA
There’s one we pass on the way to Cussy with mopeds and other paraphernalia on the walls etc. I’ll try to get a pic next time we go that way.
You don’t get Gren Shield Stamps at EV charging points.
I used to think like that 'till I started in business with my taxi. The first day I went into my usual Shell it had had the makeover and I had to do it myself. 
I went inside to pay and asked what the discount was, he was non-plussed and I had to explain that previously he was paid to do it and, as I am now doing his job it is only fair that I get his wage too.
He didn’t agree but later I realised that for the first time I could make sure of the calculation as to the consumption of the car. Previously, pumpers had done their best to round up and down.
So I bought a pair of work gloves and have never looked back since. 
Twice a year I used to do an 1800kms round trip to Cape Town as an external examiner at UCT. I’d always drive there instead of flying because the N2 highway along the continent’s south coast is such a great drive. On the way home would always stop at the Storm River service station in the Tsitzikamma Forest for 97 octane petrol, a couple of cans of oil (elderly V8 M-B coupé oil burner) and some of the local farmers’ higher octane witblits.
Warning!!! The above link is to what is possibly the most boring videos I’ve ever seen, firstly ‘cos its maker hasn’t discovered how to edit, secondly cos’ many might find his accent impenetrable and lastly because it’s just generally awful - but still a great place to fill up and have your windscreen cleaned if you’re on the N2
Less exotic - a rather more depressing legacy of Sixties’ optimism for the future at Lancaster Services on the M6. Driven past it countless times in all weathers (usually bad) used to love to see it, but hopefully never again.
And then there’s l’Aire du Viaduc de Millau, which must be familiar to many - we don’t stop there anymore when heading south, the catering has changed from Bras to something standard anonymous, but the view of the viaduct is still a fantastic example of the technological sublime.
In the 1970s the A1 was the principal route from London to Scotland. Today it is a motorway with all the many junctions and cross roads removed. There was a junction south of Retford at Markham Moor with a filling station that had an amazing roof.
The following photo dates from 2006 when the filling station became a Little Chef still with the iconic roof.
Not sure if it is still there but for those who saw it they would never forget.
The steam from the espresso machine appears to have buckled the roof somewhat. 
This is Ed Ruscha’s Sixties follow-up to Hopper’s Gas painting (which incidentally was a composite of several different ones).
I just discovered some lunatics have renamed PE Gqeberha 
Meanwhile, if you google ‘Grahamstown’, you now get ‘Makhanda’. It’s been renamed after a C19th Xhosa ‘prophet’ who told his followers that his magic would make them invulnerable to British bullets, which would 'turn into water. As a result several thousand Xhosa charged the British garrison that is now the main entrance to Rhodes Univ and were massacred.
God knows why the ANC chose to commemorate him in this way!
I’ve been through it on my way up to Durban.
