Sold to Total Petroleum, Mobil Oil and Petro-Lewis
Headquarters
Wichita, Kansas
Key people
Jack A. Vickers, Jr., president
Dick Boushka, president
Products
Petroleum products
Vickers gasoline truck, c. 1954First Vickers service station built 1954 in Haysville, KS.[1]
Vickers Petroleum Company was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers, Sr. In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process the output of recently discovered oil fields in Butler County.[2]
^"City of Haysville". City of Haysville. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
^"Report of death of John A. (Jack) Vickers" (PDF). Wichita Beacon. 11 November 1940. p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
VickersPetroleum Company was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers, Sr. In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process...
The VickersPetroleum Service Station is a historic building constructed in 1954 in Haysville, Kansas. It was the first service station to feature a hyperbolic...
player for the Wichita Kansas) Vickers of the AAU. Boushka eventually became the president of team sponsor VickersPetroleum. Boushka was named to the Saint...
50% by CFP, bought the American refining and marketing assets of VickersPetroleum as part of a sell-off by Esmark of its energy holdings. This purchase...
the Ryan Insurance Group in 1977. Esmark left the petroleum business in 1980, selling VickersPetroleum to Mobil, while Swift's fresh-meat business was...
was just an in-house codeword of Vickers with no other significance. The Valentine started as a proposal based on Vickers' experience with the A9 and A10...
showing in the 1956 AAU tournament after Bud Adams sold the squad to VickersPetroleum in Wichita. The Oilers finished third that year, losing a tense game...
heavy oils left over from petroleum distillation that can be further refined in a catalytic cracking unit Vgo (stonemason) Vickers Gas Operated machine gun...
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers:...
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in 1927–1931. In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works (Vickers) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests...
to the other cities in which Vickers has a presence; especially San Diego, California, where Samumed, the largest Vickers’ portfolio company, is based...
55 Ricklefs, 301 Vickers, Adrian. 2005. A History of Modern Indonesia, Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, p. 185. Vickers, Adrian. 2005. A History...
over 15,000 job losses in the British oil industry by the end of 1986; Vickers Ltd entered the oil exploration industry; submersible craft were helping...
remained SHE. Shell Aircraft International also works with Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP), the Shell Group's Brunei operating company (a 50-50 joint venture...
operate an all-turbine fleet. In 1963, the airline took delivery of two Vickers Viscounts from Austrian Airlines and soon acquired a third from Northeast...
demand for oil, he and rival Aristotle Onassis became giants in global petroleum shipping. Niarchos was also a noted thoroughbred horse breeder and racer...
on board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England...
crews, who received eight weeks' training. The Vickers light tanks bought by Bolivia were the Vickers Type A and Type B, commissioned into the Bolivian...
ISSN 0022-0507. S2CID 247012562. Dick, et al. (2002), p. 95 Vickers (2005), p. 20 Vickers (2005), p. 16 Vickers (2005), p. 18 Dick, et al. (2002), p. 97 "Archived...
Taylor 2003, pp. 15–18. Taylor 2003, pp. 3, 9–11, 13–15, 18–20, 22–23. Vickers 2005, pp. 18–20, 60, 133–134. Taylor 2003, pp. 22–26. Ricklefs 1991, p...
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