Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985 Page: 83
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was a, general -anagement of the refining as a, s.erVice to
the operating companies and the engineering and purchasing
and product engineering quality and the laboratory. We had
in the meantime founded and built a research laboratory
in Holland, called Caltex Central Laboratory. That's another
chapter which I haven't gotten to. At that time, I was
a director of Associated Octel Company, which was making
tetra-ethyl lead in the United Kingdom and supplying our
system worldwide, That was a joint venture with. Shell, BP,
?4obil, I guess, and Caltex. I've forgotten the equity relation-
ships. We probably had a share equivalent to our market share.
I think Shell probably had a third, we had less, and then the
rest of it was divided between Mobil and BP.
This is Octel?
Associated Octel Company. The tetra-ethyl lead increases
the octane rating of the gasoline, so this was "Oc" for
octane and "tel" for tetra-ethyl lead--Associated Octel.
It was, a British company; it still exists. It had large
tetra-ethyl lead manufacturing facilities in the United
Kingdom, and Caltex had an equity in it. I say I was on
the board, I' was involved in all the technical side of thebusiness in the Caltex Service Company days. Maybe the
Service Co ipany concept was abandoned before 1967, but I
don't think so, I: guess at the time the European properties
were , sun off, Caltex West ceased to exist because most of14arcello:
Tucker:
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Tucker, William. Oral History Interview with William Tucker, September 25, 1985, book, September 25, 1985; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137858/m1/85/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.