11-07-2020, 12:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-07-2020, 12:59 PM by Mike Costigan.)
Yes, petrol was the trade name for a nineteenth century cleaning product made by Carless, Capel & Leonard, which turned out to be most effective as a fuel in internal combustion engines! However, they failed to register it as a Trade Mark, so the word came into common usage for any brand of Motor Spirit.