A Salisbury fuel company since 1927.

We started with coal oil for cookstoves and lanterns. Today we deliver propane, heating oil and fuel, and service heating and cooling equipment, across the Eastern Shore.

Our history

1927. Taylor Oil began in the office of J.W. Taylor Produce, in the back room of an old potato house off West Main Street at the Old Farmer’s Auction Block. The first products were coal oil for cookstoves and lanterns, and farm gasoline.

1940. The company moved to West Isabella Street.

Taylor Oil tank trucks marked PURE lined up beside a waterfront during rationing in the 1940s. A man in a suit and hat, circled in red at lower right, is James Taylor I, grandfather of Jay Taylor. — Taylor Oil trucks lined up during rationing in the 1940s. At lower right, circled: James Taylor I, grandfather of Jay Taylor, Taylor Oil’s current owner.

1998. Taylor Oil bought E.T. Travis, Inc., a heating and cooling contractor.

2027. Our 100th year.

Today

We supply propane, heating oil, gasoline, diesel and lubricants, and install and service heating and cooling equipment, from our yard and office at 941 W. Isabella Street in Salisbury.