Founder Thomas Robert Jones, was the first man to be employed by BP on Anglesey. In 1910 he was paid £1 2s 6d per week for looking after two horses and making deliveries of lamp oil to Amlwch, a journey which demanded a 4am start. He also delivered to a coastal ship, but if he missed the tide the load came back!

The business has seen many changes not least horse power to petrol driven lorries, the petrol for which was originally supplied in two gallon cans, there being no service stations. When BP and Shell, who also had a depot nearby, amalgamated, Thomas lost his job! With his few savings, he bought a tanker and set up his own business. The 1930s were not good and the business just survived selling lamp oil to shops and ironmongers and TVO for tractors. After the war Thomas' sons Owen and Edwin joined the business. These were much better years, farmers especially were spending money on new machinery and more vehicles were using the new fuel - diesel.


With the new boom in diesel, Shell Mex and BP set up a national franchise of authorised distributors and in 1951, T R Jones & Sons became one of its first authorised distributors. In 1971, Edwin's health deteriorated and the business went up for sale. The deal collapsed and Shell asked Owen if he would continue on his own. Owen's son Richard completed an accountancy course and joined his father in the new business. By 1973 the Monopolies Commission decided that Shell and BP had become too large so they separated, the wheel had gone full circle and T R Jones now became a Shell distributor.

In 2004 Richard's eldest son Marcus joined the business following an engineering degree at Swansea, beginning the fourth generation of the company, with Richard's other son Joshua and Marcus' children William and Naomi ready in the wings! Together Richard and Marcus, along with their team of professional drivers, strive to maintain the good reputation set all those years ago by Thomas, providing the first class service customers of T R Jones & Sons have come to expect. We are passionate about customer service and insist on only offering premium fuels and lubricants. Please give us a call next time you are looking for oil, hopefully we can surprise you.