In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process the output of recently discovered oil fields in Butler County.

Dick Boushka, a member of the United States basketball team in the 1956 Summer Olympics, was a standout player.

The only remaining building with this design is the Vickers Petroleum Service Station, built in 1954 in Haysville, Kansas.

Doric Petroleum, a natural gas processor, was sold to Petro-Lewis Corp. Total continued to use the Vickers name in marketing until 1993.

[10][11][12][13] After the sale of the company, members of the Vickers family, including sons Jack, Jr., Robert, and Thomas, continued as civic and business leaders in both Colorado and Kansas.