Union Metal Ornamental Filling Stations and Lamp Standards
Beautiful Stations are Busy Stations
This catalog , advertised in National Petroleum News, features many designs created by Union Metal. They were endeavoring to meet the demand for more artistic stations with cost effective, simple assembly with prefabricated hollow metal panels. In the below article, I will be pulling out select images and passages from the catalog but not all of it is legible in its current form. The complete pdf is available for download at the bottom of this page.
A NEW ERA IN FILLING STATION ARCHITECTURE IS DAWNING
For several years a number of progressive oil companies and architects who have used Union Metal Architectural Columns, for entrances to find homes and publi buildings have asked up to apply these columns to filling station construction – to produce a line of artistic stations at reasonable cost that might be used in place of the plain, inartistic types, with which we are all familiar.
Beautiful Stations are Busy Stations
Keen competition developing in the filling station fields makes it necessary for the enterprising and progressive station operators to utilize everything at their command to make their stations the most attractive in the locality. Better Station Architecture, Better Lighting, Better Signs, All Mean Better Business – for the well dressed station, like the well dress man, commands attention and respect.
Construction and Erection Details
Concrete foundation for Union Metal Columns must be set according to dimensions of foundation plan. Anchor rods for columns must extend 16″ below the coupling for the tie rod which is places at foundation level. Correct spacing of rods and columns are essential in order that the building may be erected perfectly true and level.
Base Sill Member is places between bases of columns and screwed to lugs on common base at foundation level.
Column Base , Shaft, and Cap Members are secured to tie rod with three-quarter inch nut at depressing in column cap. Architrave Beam Member rests upon top of columns and is fastened to tie rod by means of three-quarter inch nut and heave gauge square plate
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Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-226
Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-231
Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-225
Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-250
Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-241 [Octagonal Type]
Union Metal Ornamental Filling Station
Design R-236
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