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Vigzol Yeoman Medium Volume (MV) 60 sprayer discovered leaning against a farm wall in a remote corner of Ardnamurchan on Scotland’s west coast in 2022.

Vigzol Yeoman Medium Volume (MV) 60 sprayer discovered leaning against a farm wall in a remote corner of Ardnamurchan on Scotland’s west coast in 2022. (Detail).

of 113 Park Street, London, W1, and Ormskirk, Lancs. (1950), oil refiners, blenders and marketers.

of Vigzol House, Greenwich, London SE 10

See also Vigzol Oil Refining Co

Producer of Vitasul diesel fuel additive

In the 1960s, the company was merged with Amoco (U.K.) and production continued at the Green Lane site of Amoco lubricants.

Early 1970s the company left the Ormskirk site.

1972 in liquidation

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Vigzol Oil Company had an Agricultural Division, based in Greenwich. This developed and sold a range of crop protection products back in the 1950s and ‘60s. These included the following products:

• Blitzweed Super containing MCPA (herbicide)
• Blitzcleve containing CMPP (herbicide)
• Ley Kleen containing MCPB (herbicide)
• Banpest DDT Emulsion containing DDT (insecticide)

To apply these herbicides they also sold a range of farm sprayers including:

• Blitzweed I – IV
• Everyman
• Yeoman Low Volume 60 & Medium Volume 60

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Sources of Information

• [1] Southport Visiter