Please help Identify Pump (not car related)

[37 Pontiac SilverStreak]

Acquired this unique pump (gas, oil?).. era is apx 1935 to 45? Could be 50's? It's working with pressure...

 

What is it? Used for?

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by CDN224 (see edit history)

[Ben Bruce aka First Born]

For sure! Probably still used. Threads into a bung in the top of a metal "oil" drum. I expect farmers and ranchers and others use them.

 

  Ben

[roysboystoys]

Trans fluid , engine oil , antifreeze hydraulic oil, whatever fluid comes in 55 gallon drums

[37 Pontiac SilverStreak]

Thanks, yep.. I think it might be a Texaco Oil Pump.. or known as a lubester pump.. kinda cool.. dr. Google says used for a lot of applications.. mostly for motor oil..

[Studemax]

Tokheim?

[JimKB1MCV]

To me it looks like a generic drum pump used to transfer any liquid, usually some kind of oil but not always. 

My first exposure to these pumps, I think was transfering the contents of twenty 55 gallon drums of Taro 440 lube oil into my ships L.O. tanks from the end of a dock in northern Norway in the dead of winter. It took a while. I think that was in 1969.