German independents since the 1980s
German independents since the 1980sBösche und Bödeker GmbH was established as far back as 1919 in the German port city of Bremen. A small chain of filling stations was established before the Second World War, but hostilities caused the company to retrench to a single service station in Bremen's Neustadt district. After the war it expanded rapidly reaching 20 filling stations by 1958, and having only five fewer outlets twenty years later. Since the early 1990s the company has focused more on the wholesale trading of fuels, lubricants, heating oil and other products such as propane, although it still operates 4 service stations in the Bremen area. In recent years it has also developed a web presence in online lubricant distribution and heating oil trading.
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Turbotank has occasionally produced maps and the cover design shown here has been used since 1989. Stocks are held of a standard A5 format card cover which can then be fixed to any competitive road atlas; ones produced by Falk-plan with their patent folding system have been used most often. The atlas normally includes a map of Germany and insets for the largest cities, but the cover carefully does not commit the company to a fixed content. Indeed, this design was first used before unification, but was sufficiently non-specific to survive! |
There have probably been other German independent brands that have issued maps over the past 25 or so years that I am not aware of. If you have any examples, please send me an e-mail.
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