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What are those mesh screens on top of the gas pumps?


If you look at the gas pumps, you'll see there's a cylinder on top with mesh around it. What's that for?




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Pumps in those days had glass globes that were designed so people could see that gas was being pumped into the car. This was before the development of gauges indicating the amount of gas being pumped. You could see the gas being pumped from inside the pump proper, through the glass globe and then through the hose and into the car. The mesh covers were to protect the glass.

(jgroub: see also my edit to my last reply on your thread about the water bags carried on the hood ornaments.)

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