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Retro fuel dispensers, memories of another era. When returning from Lleida to Barcelona on the A-2 we stopped at a service station near the town of Bruc (El Bruc Repsol Service Station).
There we were able to see a careful display of nine old fuel dispensers, which I photographed for La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos, used years ago at this gas station or other service stations.
We don't know how long they will have it there, but we suggest a visit to see this colorful and instructive display where you can see different information on the devices:
The gasoline dispenser is a device located in a gas station that is used to put gasoline into the car tank. The old pumps had a counter for the volume of gasoline dispensed, with the figures on rotating wheels (one for each digit), which were physically connected to a turbine that measured the flow of fuel.
Today fuel flow is measured by vanes that rotate rotary encoders that generate electrical impulses.
In some cases the booster pump can be sealed and submerged within the fuel tank, in which case it is known as a submersible pump.
Apart from this, and for safety reasons, the most modern pumps are normally equipped with a vapor recovery control system, to prevent gasoline vapors from escaping into the air of the gas station.
More and more we find at service stations, and in many other places, electric charging stations, called electrolineras or photolineras, which are nothing more than points for recharging the batteries of electric vehicles, including plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Different types of charging stations are distinguished as normal, fast, semi-fast and super-fast (HPC) charging points.
The new points are evolving towards super-fast charging, through procedures that do not take more than 10 minutes (rapid electricity dispensers or battery replacement stations) and it is expected that in the coming years there will be a rapid evolution in this direction.
