Guy looks cold, can't even imagine why.
Yeah, as far South as he is, it shouldn't be cold.
Is he dumping the gas into the street? Is there something missing from the picture? It doesn't look right.
If that tank was full of gas, I think that TT would be overloaded.
Ken, don't forget that the back one and a half feet or so of that body is the storage area for the cans and hose that they used to dispense the fuel with. If you look closely at the top of the picture, there three different compartments for different types of fuel, they all may not have been filled at once, but I think a TT would handle it fine if they were. That is a very common size of a tank for a TT or AA truck. JMHO. Dave
Ken it looks like some touch too the photo.
I have seen a lot of photo that had drawn in details from back in those days. It was easier to do on a black and white photo.
It looks like the pipe and funnel are super- imposed. The plumbing doesn't make sense, to have that big of a pipe choked down by that funnel.
Herb
I think the funnel is only supporting the hose or pipe. I don't think anything is actually flowing through it.
More than 30 years ago (about 1980), I talked to an old timer who had worked at a gas station in the early 1920s. He said that when the trucks delivered gas to the station, they filled up five gallon buckets and carried them to the input pipe for the underground tank and poured them one at a time. There was no way to automatically measure the amount of gas taken from the truck. So they did NOT transfer the gas with a hose. On the back of the tank (on the truck) was a curricular counter with numbers around it, in increments of five. Every time a bucket was filled,a lever on the indicator would be moved by truck driver, to the next number. I have one of those counters (somewhere?). I'll post a photo if I can find it soon.
I will agree that the hose and funnel in the photo was probably added by someone trying to make more understandable, as to what was going on. Its obvious that that funnel goes nowhere. The artist may also have blotted out any buckets in the picture.
They (Magnolia) delivered gasoline to our old store and filling station in 5 gallon milk cans, they had a built in pouring lip if I remember right, we never got much anyway, the locals would only buy a gallon or two at a time, sometimes a big spender might get 5 gallons, but not often. This went on until after the War, when the Distributor showed up in a bobtail tanker of sorts, we were impressed.