Check The Oil! - Map articles

Check The Oil! magazine has two regular columns that are directly related to the topic of this Website. Letter from Europe looks at the relatively undeveloped Petroliana collecting scene in Europe and also at the history of European Petrol Companies. Dave Leach's regular map column covers Oil Company Road Maps from the USA and also internationally, including Europe.

Dave Leach's Map Column

Date	Description
Fall 2016	Barnsdall: America's First Refiner?
Early 2016 (34-03)	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Journey ends - Collectors Stories
Late 2015 (34-02)	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: 2000: A New Century...A New Way
Mid-2015 (34-01)	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Nineties - A New Era Begins
Spring 2015 (33-04)	Sigma maps; and 100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Eighties - Maps for Sale
Fall 2014	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Seventies - How could this be?
Summer 2014	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Sixties - Oil Company Maps at 50!
Spring 2014	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Fabulous Fifties, and Stock covers
Winter 2013/4	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Forties - A Decade of Change
Fall 2013	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Art Deco and Art Moderne
June/July 2013	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Golden Age
Spring 2013	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: Some 20s Gems
December 2012	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: 1920s Experimentation
October 2012	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: A.W. Harris, Pioneer
August 2012	100 Years of Oil Company Road maps: The Beginning
May 2012	Travelaide Map & Directory
March 2012	George Washington Bicentennial
January 2012	Civil War Sesquicentennial
November 2011	Wolf's Head (and Wolverine-Empire)
September 2011	Savannah Based companies: SOC & Colonial
June/July 2011	Mobil - World Tour
May 2011	Mobil - The Flying Red Horse's 100th birthday
March 2011	Red Head
December 2010	Smith Oils of Rockford, Ill
Oct/Nov 2010	Tesoro maps from Alaska
June 2010 & Aug/Sept 2010	No road map articles
April 2010	Maverik
February 2010	Views of China
December 2009	No road map articles
October 2009	Pennsylvania Turnpike
August 2009	Early Travel Promotion
June/July2009	Promoting Travel: the Touring Service
Mar/April 2009	No road map articles
Jan/Feb. 2009	Corypenn
Nov. 2008	Serve Yourself Gas Stations
Sept. 2008	Bay State (and Interstate)
July 2008	Douglas
May 2008	No road map articles
March 2008	Higrade (Waite Phillips)
Jan. 2008	White Star
Nov. 2007	Canfield
Sept. 2007	Florida maps from Northern companies
July 2007	Maps with Oil Company advertising inside
May 2007	Gates Oil of Denver, and Lilly White of Lima, OH
March 2007	Road map finds 2006
Jan. 2007	Penna Independent Oil Co (Pennico)
Nov. 2006	Agip
Sept. 2006	No road map articles
July 2006	No article from Dave Leach, but Letter from Europe looked at 1930s Shell maps from Germany.
May 2006	Map finds of 2005
March 2006	Recent Service Station location maps
Jan. 2006	No road map articles
Nov. 2005	Mexico (and Pemex)
Sept. 2005	No road map articles
July 2005	California Pacific International Exposition Maps, 1935
May 2005	No road map articles
March 2005	Map finds of 2004
Jan. 2005	The Esso Portable Map Library
Nov. 2004	Ten Years of the Map Column: a review
Sept. 2004	Jenney road atlases
July 2004	Gulf Oil special maps (2)
May 2004	Gulf Oil special maps (1): strip, tour and trip guides
March 2004	Road map finds 2003
Jan. 2004	Keystone maps
Nov. 2003	Billups - "the sign of the hand"
Sept. 2003	New York state independent brands
Jul. 2003	No road map articles
May 2003	Multi-branded maps
Mar. 2003	Road map finds 2002
Jan. 2003	Co-op maps
Nov. 2002	Home Oil
Sept. 2002	Cities Service & affiliates
Jul. 2002	U.S. history oil company maps
May 2002	Deep Rock
Mar. 2002	Road map finds 2001
Jan. 2002	Animals on maps
Nov. 2001	Leonard
Sept. 2001	Small oil companies - K, L
Jul. 2001	Hess
May 2001	Richfield Oil Corp. of New York
Mar. 2001	Road map finds 2000
Dec. 2000	Current German road maps
Oct. 2000	Caltex International maps
Aug. 2000	Small oil companies - G, H, I
Jun. 2000	Union 76 - Part 2
Apr. 2000	Union 76 - Part 1
Feb. 2000	20th Century road maps
Dec. 1999	Sunoco
Oct. 1999	Road map finds
Aug. 1999	Gas stations on maps
Jun. 1999	Small oil companies - D, E, F
Apr. 1999	Cartoons on maps
Feb. 1999	Ashland & affiliates - Part 3
Dec. 1998	Ashland & affiliates - Part 2
Oct. 1998	Ashland & affiliates - Part 1
Aug. 1998	Credit cards on maps
Jun. 1998	no road map articles
Apr. 1998	Small oil companies - A, B, C
Feb. 1998	Rotary
Dec. 1997	Miniature road maps
Oct. 1997	Petrofina
Aug. 1997	Oil company road atlases - Part 2
Jun. 1997	Oil company road atlases - Part 1
Apr. 1997	Freedom Oil Company
Feb. 1997	Shell international maps
Dec. 1996	Interpreting print quantity codes
Oct. 1996	Oil company overprints on maps
Aug. 1996	Road maps with station locations
Jun. 1996	no road map articles
Apr. 1996	Atlantic Refining Company
Feb. 1996	Refiners Oil Company
Nov. 1995	Husky
Sep. 1995	World's Fair maps
Jul. 1995	Midwest Map Company
May 1995	Oil Association maps
Mar. 1995	Jobber and local station maps
Jan. 1995	Early Gulf maps (pre 1930)
Nov. 1994	General road map history
Dec. 1990**	Complete sets of road maps
Aug. 1990**	Scenic cover road maps
June 1987**	Collecting road maps

** The first three articles were not written by Dave Leach but by Noel Levy.

Thanks to Mark Greaves for collating this list to 2003 and - of course - to Dave Leach for writing the articles in the first place.