![]() ![]() Wherever your patients are on the continuum of care, we have the precise, reliable lab equipment you need to help them. Shop Medical Supplies & Equipment Innovative, precise products for your physician office and hospital lab Read our physician's guide to expanding your practice with point-of-care testing As your lab navigates these challenges, count on us as an ally. Compliance, accuracy and efficiency – they all matter, too. If anybody has a early/mid-60 Atlas shock catalog, I've also got 2-3 boxes full of new Atlas shocks for late-50s/early 60s cars but no way to identify what fits what.But in today's healthcare landscape, lab results alone won't cut it. But by the end of the seventies, nearly all the 'service' stations were gone. That's where I got my 'formal' mechanic training before quitting in the mid-70s to go into the electrical trade. No major repairs like engines, transmissions, or suspension work, but brake jobs, full tune ups, water pumps, starters, etc were done (basically anything most dealers did), and some even had 'arrangements' with Midas for muffler work. Atlas existed up to the early 90s when Exxon and Amoco bailed out, Chevron/BP sold the bankrupt remains in the mid 90s.īut in their heyday, they sold some top-shelf parts and accessories their chrome polish was the best I've ever seen and I was bummed when I finally ran out.Īnd some Standard Stations did do more than just oil changes they opened some 'service bay' stations in certain markets in the late 60s. Meanwhile, the various parent oil companies were being sued by their dealers for restraint of trade with the result that the dealers weren't limited to retailing only Atlas products. After the late 60s, Atlas tires were generally just a rebranded version made by whoever met the spec and were no longer exclusive designs. ![]() The hurriedly-acquired outside-design replacement wasn't much better, and worse yet, JC Penney sold the exact same tire (with their name on it) for 40% less. ![]() Until their first radial that is that tire (Cushionaire?) was an unmitigated disaster and they ended up replacing most of those on warrantee. They had really good tires, Atlas did their own design/testing then had them made by one of the majors to their spec. Some of the stuff was simply re-branded (Trico wipers, Gabriel shocks) but much was made to their specs and was quality built. They offered a wide range of branded parts at different times, including tires, batteries and cables, belts, hoses, lamps, wiper blades, full line of tune-up parts, filters, shocks, wheel bearings, u-joints, and even new 'universal' alternators and regulators (I've still got a 'Atlas' alternator around here someplace). was formed in 1930 by the Standard Oil 'sisters' (Standard Oils of New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, and California) to give the now-broke-up companies a nation-wide brand with a uniform warrantee honored across the country. I no longer carry one, as VISA is so acceptable everywhere and for everything.Īnyway, that's the Atlas story (my version via recollections of my early days as a working stiff kid trying to stay out of pool halls and other noted dens of iniquity.Ītlas Supply Co. Boat people got boats.car folks got cars.now there's just a Chevron emblem on them I think. At one time, my Chevron card had an airplane on it, as they had noticed I was purchasing a lot of AvGas with it. Back in the 60s you could look at the back of your Chevron Card and see a microcosm of brands that were sufficiently affiliated with SO to accept your card in reciprocal agreements for their card in your area. Atlas products were of good-to-better quality, and - like Sears - were usually manufactured to SO's specs and branded appropriately.Īll the above is specific to Standard Oil of California - other ex-Rockefeller enterprises (after the Sherman Anti-trust Act was put into effect) such as ESSO (phonetic pronunciation of SO (Standard Oil) et al, handled Atlas products also, along with brands specific to their market. ![]() Chevron dealers were independent, so they were allowed to expand their services into other areas of automotive repair. Dealers were 'encouraged' to use Atlas TBA, but as long as they had some in stock, the 'retail rep' (area manager) couldn't say much. As Dave pointed out, Chevron was the dealer arm of Standard Oil of California. Standard Stations did no mechanical repairs beyond the usual LOF and front wheel bearing packs. Anything that could be serviced or replaced by your generic untrained mechanic. Application manuals for everything they made - tires, batteries, fan belts, oil filters, wheel seals, ignition parts (points, condensor, rotor, cap, wires, etc). My recollection is that there were no catalogs, per se. ![]()
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