Oil company maps – Europe and the British Isles – M

The old German script in this Thirties-era map reads "Deutsche, kauft Kraftstoffe und Öle bei den leistungsfäigen deutsche händlern vereinigt in der Uniti." This translates loosely to "German, buy fuel and oil from the efficient German dealers affiliated in Uniti." Uniti was a German trade association of petroleum dealers.

VEB Minol was the state-owned petroleum monopoly in the Communist-controlled German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Most of its production came from the former Leuna refinery in that company's namesake community near Leipzig. Nominally a list of Tankstellen (gas stations) showing facilities and hours of operation, this document is really a road map of East Germany. Suggested price was 4,60 East German marks.

Soon after the hated Berlin Wall was opened by the East German government on November 9, 1989, citizens of the two parts of Germany could for the first time in decades freely travel around their homeland. This 1990 map issued by Minol, the petroleum monopoly owned by the East German government, shows both the DDR (East Germany) and the Bundesrepublik (West Germany). Earlier maps issued in the DDR would not have shown West Germany since DDR citizens were not permitted to travel across the heavily-fortified boundary between the two parts of Germany. This map even lists border crossings in Berlin; the wall had been opened in many spots but had not yet been completely obliterated. This 1990 map was drawn by the West German firm of Busche, which is notable for their excellent maps drawn for Aral. Later in 1990, the DDR would cease to exist at all, as Germany became a unified nation for the first time since the end of World War II in 1945. With the change to a free-market economy in Germany's repatriated eastern provinces, most of Minol's assets (including the refinery at Leuna) were sold to the French firm Elf. Other Minol assets in the east went to Aral.

This scenic Mobil map of Austria was issued in 1983.

This Mobil map from Great Britain was issued in 1983. The map's typography is similar to that of Mobil issues elsewhere in the world.

This 1971 Mobil issue from Sweden is a spiral-bound road atlas.

This map of Turkey was issued by the Turkish Mobil subsidiary in the late Fifties or early Sixties.

Known for its Spur brand name used in the southeast and south central U. S., Murphy Oil Corporation entered the market in Britain (and a handful of other European countries) in the Sixties. But because U. K. trademark rights to the Spur brand could not be obtained, the company operated instead under the Murco name. This map was issued in 1990.