Name/Title
Peters Shell ServiceScope and Content
Historical information on Peters Shell Service for 1976 Bicentennial Celebration in Waupun, WI.
*Facts are handwritten and was scanned with mistakes, if any, left uncorrected.
Peters Shell Service
Donald Peters purchased the 76 Station, at Fond du Lac St. in May 1976 from James Gerritson.
Mr. Peters changed over to Shell products & put in self service gas equipment and closed the repair garage.
James Gerritson purchased the Sunoco inventory from Bob
kraemer in . . . . . .and also handled auto repair & overhaul service. When Sunoco gas & products left Wis during the energy cirsis, Union 76 came in and it was called Gerritson's Union 76 Service.
Bob Kraemer bought the station from D-X Sunray Corp. which in turn bought it from the Waupun Oil Company & the station that was known for years as the Powder Puff Filling Station.
D-X Sunray Oil Co. was a corporation formed by a merger of the Mid-Continent Petroleum Company & Sunray. Home offices were located in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a district office in Madison.
The Powder Puff was torn down and a new station of cement block was constructed by Howard Brothers.Acquisition
Accession
2016.0075Source or Donor
Waupun Area Chamber of CommerceAcquisition Method
Donation
