Description
Full color 9 1/2″ x 13″ ad for the 10-30 Motor Oil from the Tidewater Oil Company sold at the Flying A stations. There is a picture of a devoted family doctor driving his car to the house of a needy patient in the darkness of the late night hours. The headline claims this doctor is traveling “Under the wings of the Flying A“ and claims the products sold there are “Just what the Doctor ordered”. The text makes a claim that I sure would have been hard to prove when it talks of doctors and claims that “so many stop at the Flying A“. It makes the more general claims about better power in the city and on the open road along with extra protection. Another claim that would have been hard to prove is, when talking about Veedol 10-30 Motor Oil, calls it “the all season Motor Oil that gives highest octane performance”. This ad is larger than my scanner bed so the outer edges of the ad will not be visible in the scanned view.
Source: November 12, 1956 Life magazine.
