PREEMPREEMPreem is one of the newest brands of petrol (gasoline) in Europe being formed after Texaco merged its Swedish interests with those of OK-Villa and Svenska Petroleum (SP). The Preem name was introduced at about 500 filling stations in 1995-6. Preem also built up a chain of 61 service stations in Poland before seling them to Statoil in 2002, but the Polish chain is not known to have issued any maps.
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Preem continued in the Caltex-Texaco tradition of issuing spiral bound atlases in preference to sheet maps. The covers of the 1996 and 1997 (left) editions were similar with both showing an inset map of Västerås in the bear's speech bubble. However as the Luleå extracts from the maps show, despite both being produced by Liber Kartor at 1:700,000, the new map (bottom) is much more boldly coloured with simplified symbols for automat (a) and boat stations (b). The green squares are SÅIFA commercial diesel fuelling sites. |
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As well as 11 pages of maps, each atlas contained 9 pages of town plans at 1:35,000. Luleå's plan locates all four types of Preem station as well as including small sketches of the Dom kyrka (main church) and Stadshus (town hall). |
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