[Travel] Esso Tiger Tokens what did you save up for?

[Doc Lynam]

Was it back in the 80's that you would get Tiger Tokens for gifts at the petrol station, Coffee machines, Hand held TV?

What did you save up for, if you can remember?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoA7nrwSv8M

 

[Two Professors]

The tiger's tails from the '60's were better.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I know we had a couple of them there highly useful breakdown emergency lamp/torch/hazard light thingies on a great black hanging strap.

Possibly a flask too.

 

[Badger]

My brother worked at Esso and managed to "acquire" lots of tiger tokens. He used to give me the catalogue and ask me what I wanted for my birthday (I was about 7 at the time). The one thing I remember him getting me was a Bush Radio Alarm Clock; I had it for at least 10 years.

 

[AnotherArch]

All their products were good quality. I remember getting quite a few set of towels, of all things. Can't remember what else I got then, but doing 40-odd thousand miles a year led to a load of tokens!

 

[Badger]

This is what I had

 

[Doc Lynam]

Lovely stuff

 

[FatSuperman]

I got the cap, T-shirt and bum bag and I wore them all at once.

In hindsight this was a terrible decision.

 

[jonnyrovers]

I got a big poster of the tiger & it gave me nightmares for years.

 

[maffew]

I cant remember. I completed this though. And it fell apart

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/232918076999

 

[Doc Lynam]

I got the cap, T-shirt and bum bag and I wore them all at once.

In hindsight this was a terrible decision.

Strong look though!

 

[Badger]

I got the cap, T-shirt and bum bag and I wore them all at once.

In hindsight this was a terrible decision.

That sounds quite Alan Partridge.

 

[The Clamp]

I think Dad got a set of milk glasses with Gotta Lotta Bottle emblazoned upon them. He genuinely looked gutted when I dropped one at the table during Sunday Roast. Soaking the beef joint and roasties in milk and cracking the glass clean in two. I don't think he had the patience to save them up for anything substantial.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Not sure if this link will work, but I still have these from the early 70s, collected from Shell .

 

[Sheebo]

I got the cap, T-shirt and bum bag and I wore them all at once.

In hindsight this was a terrible decision.

I think I did the same but admittedly was about 8. This was def the 90s OP?!

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

During the early 90s I rocked the shirt, the cap, the bumbag and the drink bottle. Sometimes simultaneously, sometimes solo!

EDIT: Sometimes sideways too apparently...

 

[Goldstone1976]

Did they do mugs? I think my granddad collected mugs. *nods*

 

[Doc Lynam]

During the early 90s I rocked the shirt, the cap, the bumbag and the drink bottle. Sometimes simultaneously, sometimes solo!

EDIT: Sometimes sideways too apparently...

Was that the Esso T Shirt?

 

[Doc Lynam]

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Not sure if this link will work, but I still have these from the early 70s, collected from Shell .

Just wait for the antiques road show to rock into town!

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Was that the Esso T Shirt?

Yep, also had the sweater