1950's-1960's Skelly Battery Service

[NEW1966]

I started working at my Uncle Walt's Skelly Station at the age of 14.  Just an item he gave me when he retired. I thought I would share it with the Group.

[rocketraider]

You often see battery service kits at swap meets but never this complete. Usually just the tote and it's often damaged.

 

Who else here keeps battery hydrometers and fillers around besides me?☺️ and old antifreeze testers and other assorted test equipment that used to be common as dirt?

[Jubilee]

  Great collection. The little town I grew up in (pop about 2500) had a Skelly refinery about a mile out of town. They made more propane, butane, ect. then they could get rid so they flared most of it.

  I think they were suppose to charge 2-3 cents a gallon for propane, but would just give it away to the locals.

  In the Midwest, Skelly trucks stops were the first modern design that I remember in the early sixties.

[Glen Andrews]

Well, I have an antifreeze tester that I've had for at least 45 years or so; it's not real unique,it's survived several moves, and I used it recently after changing the coolant (and hoses) in my 2006 Toyota Solara, thus the pink colored coolant.

[NEW1966]

I am from Rockford, Illinois.