Innovative Solutions

Fuel pumps all over the world run off electricity.  Petroleum stations in Africa have taken a tip from the past in order to continue making sales while the electricity is out: retrofitting the machines with hand pump capabilities.  In America in the 1940s we were doing the opposite: rigging machines to manually pumped fuel centers. Most of the time pumping fuel is a one person show, requiring the user to remove the nozzle and squeeze the trigger.  As you will notice my fuel cap doubling as holding the fuel trigger while the attendant turns the pump.  Who needs that little metal locking mechanism?  Every car has a built-in trigger-lock/fuel cap!