Vickers Petroleum

Vickers Petroleum Company
IndustryOil
Founded1918 (1918)
FounderJack A. Vickers, Sr.
Defunct1980 (1980)
FateSold to Total Petroleum, Mobil Oil and Petro-Lewis
HeadquartersWichita, Kansas
Key people
ProductsPetroleum products
Vickers gasoline truck, c. 1954
First Vickers service station built 1954 in Haysville, KS.[1]

Vickers Petroleum Company was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers, Sr. In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process the output of recently discovered oil fields in Butler County.[2]

  1. ^ "City of Haysville". City of Haysville. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  2. ^ "Report of death of John A. (Jack) Vickers" (PDF). Wichita Beacon. 11 November 1940. p. 1. Retrieved 23 September 2015.