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A little History The following was taken from http://www.collectorsweekly.com : Prior to our disposable metal, paper and plastic oil containers you would purchase oil at a gas station either pumped from a drum or in glass quart bottles which sat in special racks.
The bottles where mostly displayed in wire racks such as seen to the left. There WERE examples of solid racks made from wood and sheet-metal. It might be possible to make an acceptable wire rack using Photo-etching.
Some Examples 
Great photo. This young woman is the attendant and is knitting while waiting for customers. The wire rack to her left is a nice display rack. It *might* be possible to make one from wire in HO .. if someone was really careful, skilled and totally nuts. (I may try it).
Here we have sheet metal cases with wire rack inserts. This also provides a really good look at the bottles (glass) and the nozzles – zinc I believe.
Then we have this all-sheet-metal rack (as far as I can tell at least). This is the one I used to pattern my model of an oil rack on.
From that last all-sheet-metal rack I cam up with this model. The main difference is simply that there is a minimum wall thickness for FUD of 0.3mm .. so the model was adjusted to take that into account.
The model in HO 
My version of the oil bottles and racks in HO. There are bottles and 8 racks (8 bottles per rack) and 64 bottles
The model in O 
My version of the oil bottles and racks in O. There are various combinations of racks, bottles and both bottles and racks
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