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English
Noun
lubritorium (plural lubritoriums)
- (US, Australia) A facility where vehicles can be oiled.
- 1957, United States Congress House Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Practices in The Petroleum Industry, page 34,
- Thus, whether stations have or do not have inside lubritoriums, affords a ready means for a gemeral classification of gasoline outlets as to the adequacy of their facilities.
1963, United States Congress, Hearings, volume 18, page 367:We estimate the size of the building and platform, not counting the outside, maneuvering and parking areas, in excess of 50,000 square feet, plus, as you have inquired, a “lubritorium” which is postal parlance for a post office garage.
1992, Michael Karl Witzel, American Gas Station: History and Folklore of Gas Stations in America, page 85:The Lubritorium was now a basic part of the American gasoline station, with the moneymaking services it generated a welcome boost to sagging fuel sales.
1975, John Ritchie, Australia as once we were, page 247:[…] neon-lit motels began to dot the highways; the grocer′s shop became a supermarket, the garage a lubritorium; the ‘bottle-oh’ and the ‘ice-man’ sold their yards and saw them transformed into candy-striped Chicken-Inns or pre-owned car showrooms with more pennants than at Agincourt.
2001, Martin J. McGuirk, The Model Railroader′s Guide to Locomotive Servicing Terminals, page 49:The Norfolk & Western′s Lubritoriums were considered by many to be the ultimate development of the engine house.
- 2007, Jenny Gregory, Keys, George Eric Maxwell, entry in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990 A-K, page 624,
- His study was nicknamed ‘the lubritorium’; there he oiled the wheels and smoothed over difficult situations.