1929 – 17,000 gasoline pumps
The Italy of 1929, five years after the first roadside facilities had appeared, counted more than two hundred thousand motor vehicles. At their service were 16,750 gasoline pumps: 6,500 of Siap (Standard gas), 6,000 of Nafta (Shell gas), and 4,000 of Agip (Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli, established in 1926), the firm which had brought Snom […]
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