Vacuum Oil Company

The Vacuum Oil Company was an American company that, in 1931, merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York to form Socony-Vacuum. This entity later became Mobil Oil Corporation in 1966. The Vacuum Oil Company was originally part of the Standard Oil Company and Trust, which was an industrial empire founded by John D. Rockefeller that controlled nearly all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States from 1870 to 1911. The Standard Oil Trust was dissolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1911, leading to the independence of its constituent companies, including Vacuum Oil Company and Standard Oil Company of New York.12