I remember going to a petrol station waaaaaay back in northern New South Wales where the attendant used a hand pumped (no electricity) bowser, where you pumped the fuel into a measured glass container at the top of the bowser, then allowed it to flow into the tank. Filling a tank may require multiple pumps.

I rang my parents from there, the only time I ever used a rotary (crank) telephone.

I wonder if that's where the expression "crank phone call" comes from?

This was 1971.

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