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tHE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C.

Thursday, March 10, 1955.

New Oil Distributin

Royalite Oil Company Limited is proud of the fact that it
is the “100 percent Canadian oil company,” .and the firm
operating its largest dealership in point of area is proud of
the fact that it is strictly a family concern,

Cariboo Oil Distributors Lta.,
wholesaling Royalite products trom
100 Mile House on the south to a
point midway between Quesnel and
Prince George on the north and in-
cluding all the surrounding areas,
eame into being in November of last
year.

President and managing-director
the fast growing distribution

large company so he contacted his
brother and father to see of they
would be interestel in joining fo:
Harold at Quesnel had heew consider
ing a move and was all for the ven-
ure, and down at the coast Mr. Kyte
Sr., living in retirement, had just
had an offer for his farm and told
Bob he could be on deck the follow-

of

me mechanic to keep the rolling
ock maintained. The present three
garage will eventually he fully
equipped to handle all mechanical
work. The present head office will
soon he doubled in x and an en-
ged staff added under office man-
ager Benjamin Tilley. Out of Quesnei
to service the important Wel
Barkerville area, Royalite produc
are being handled by John Lazzarin,
Sr. |
SUB AGENCMmS

The directors of Cariboo Oll-Dis-

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district, one around Macalister, and to stabilize the
erville area for in the Cariboo area, His company’s
emphasis on a complete oil de:ivery

one in the Wells-Bar
the immediate future.

y Enterprise

price of oil products

Royalice wall establish retail out- System from refinery to consumer is

lets as well. y pres
dent Bob Kyte states that there will |
be an “adequate” number of service |
stations along the Cariboo cen

between the agency's north and south
boundries. Five should be operating
within the next six months and an-
other two will be established later,
At present the only retail outlet is
a pump at the Quesnel plant,

designed to ultimately
cost of the product to the buyer, Mr.
ixyte states.

MR.

reduce the

Alexis Creek News

and MRS. KEN HOPKINS

left Sunday for the coast, for medical
attention:

assistant Ranger exams.

SOME OF THE BOYS were up to
Big Creek Sunday to try the skiing.
One local lad found-it a little too
™much or him and still hears the Sears.

MR. and MRS. CHURCH were
visitors to Alexis: Creek Friday,

GORDON FRENCH of K mloops

has been spending a few days with. ‘

Mr. and Mrs. Ken Walmsley.

WITH the thermometer at 35?
‘below zero, what of the Cptimistic
souls who during last weck’s mild

company is Bob Kyte, resident of | ing week tributors plan on establishing sub- Mr. Kyte states that it is his FRED MARCH, MURRAY TaAy- spell said “Oh it couldn t possibly
Williams Lake since 1947. Vice-| So Cariboo Oil Distributors was agencies throughout the area, with | opinion that the appearance of Royal-| LOR and BOB STREIGLER were in| get very cola now — the dys are too
president is Bob’s brother. Harold T. | »orn, and the three men started lay-| one planned in the 100 Mile House | ite in the oil industry has done much! to Williams Lake Tuesday to try the | long and the sun is too-hi ou

Kyte, who has lived in Quesnel for|ing their plans. Out of these has

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grown the Williams Lake plant with
a storage capacity of 45,000 gallons;
a 50,000-gallon storage plant at
Quesnel, and rolling stock valued at
385.000 to handle distribution. At
Williams Lake is also the main office
and ‘a three-hay service
ERNATIONAL PLE

The rolling stock consists of a fleet
of International weks and ineludes
(bree tandem tank trucks, each ear-
# over 2000 gallons tor distrib:
lion in the
with

the past ten years and is-manager of
the company branch at that centre.
Secretary-treasurer of the firm is
Harold P. Kyte, father of the boys,
who is also manager of the Willian
Lake branch.

Bob, who had operated an agency
fn Williams Lake for another
company since 1951, was all set to
leave commerei life last
‘and realize a life-long ambition to
Study medicine when the opportunity
Presented itself to become C riboo
dealer for Royalite. The more he in-
vestigated the proposition the ‘more
he liked jt, but he realized that an
operation under such a vast area
would require the establishment of a

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ge.

oil

summer

e the

dtoag

We are pl pening of our Fully Modern

WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTING PLANT

\ LOCATED IN e

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. 2

ROYALITE EXTRA QUALITY PETROLEUM PRODUCTS,

erat are 12 men on the payroll 2 INCEUDING:
De dates, Gree oe GASOLINES, LUBRICATING OILS, GREASES :
. |» AND HEATING OILs,

two line haulers
and

2600-gallon
and oil from
refinery of Royalite,
semi-van for carrying
trom Kamloops. The tanks for
trucks were constructed}
Westeel Products of Vancouver,

To be added are two cars for the
sales staff and two small y

cased

the

- + PRESIDENT

ckage

£
are now available ‘in the

WILLIAMS LAKE AND CARIBOO AREAS

FOR INFORMATION AND COURTEOUS SERVICE

» WRITE or PHONE:
BOB KYTE - CARIBOO OIL DISTRIBUTORS LTD,
“WILLIAMS LAKE - PHONE: 121
ROYALITE DISTRIBUTOR FOR as
WILLIAMS LAKE and QUESNEL |

OR

S eS
Bob Kyte, president and
managing director of Cariboo
Oil Distributors Ltd.

LORNE HOLGATE, Representative oa ae
ROYALITE DISTRICT OFFICE, QUESNEL - Phone 1777

ROYALITE OIL COMPANY, LIMITED

Directors’ Varied
Careers Will Prove

Company director and man

V luabl. To Firm wer of the Williams Lake THE 100% CANADIAN OIL COMPANY : |
aiuvabie plant is Bob’s father, Harold :
P. Kyte,

The directors of Cariboo Oil Dis-
tributors Ltd., bring years of
experience to their new company

President Bob Kyte and. his bro-
ther Harold received their early
education in the three prairie prov-
inces as the family followed poli
man Kyte senior to his various posts
They finally settled n Vancouver.
There, following his schooling Boh
worked for a cereal and biscuit com-
pany, as salesman and shop foreman.
He joined the RCA¥ during the war
and served in Canada as a radio in-
structor. Following disch
ed the Vancouver police
served a stretch in the me
as a radio officer hefore s

Cariboo Oil Distributors Ltd.

are proud to be asscciated
with the provincial polic

remained in police work until after |

it was taken over by the RCMP ana |

se ered Royalite Oil Company Limited

with the Williams Lake detachment.

He then took over the agency locally
for one of the oil companies.

During his time with the police
force in Williams Lake, Bob took an
active part in Boy Scout work and
was a charter member of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce.

His brother Harold, who at 38 is
Bob's senior by a year,
mainly employed with the lumber in-
dustry during his yes
He was logging supe
Western Plywoods and prior to. join-
ing the family concern w i
of International Sawmills, | 7

through the distribution

has be

of Royalite Quality Petroleum Products a

This is the second time Mr, Kyte
fenior has come out of retirement to

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A note concerning Spring Break-up

more active life. For
he served
Police for
and latterly was chief of
Port Alberni when he
Came the war and Mr,
ed to join the RCAR,
his officer training when
lion of a little matter of ag
and he was sent b:
He then worked

with

We lend Storage Facilities to the Trade

the que:

Keep operating over the Spring Break-up—Bring your Storage Problems To Us

real

in
awhile before joining the staff of

estate

For Fast, Efficient Service
Phone 121

For Quality Petroleum Products
Specify ROYALITE

tuberculosis hospital as an orderly
He held this job for ten years and|/
retired again to his Luu Island farm |
on the Lower Mainland. |