Prior to tank distribution, oil was delivered in cans.[1] From the 1880s it was distributed in horse drawn tanks.[2] In 1910 Standard Oil started to use motor tankers.[3] Anglo American Oil introduced underground tanks and delivery tankers to the UK in 1920.[4] Pickfords took over an oil tanker company in 1921 and soon had 1,000 imperial gallons (4,500 l; 1,200 US gal) tankers, with 3,600 imp gal (16,000 l; 4,300 US gal) by the mid 1930s.[5] Elsewhere development was slower. For example, the first petrol tanker (200 imp gal (910 l; 240 US gal)) from Auckland[6] to arrive in Hamilton, New Zealand, was greeted by a brass band in 1927.[7]