Sentence:  I needed at least fifteen litres more petrol in my tank to reach the next major settlement and, unlike China, there were no shiny new gas stations here with <WSD>bowsers</WSD> of different types of petrol to choose from, nor were there pretty young gas girls in nice uniforms ready to fill ‘er up – in fact there were no gas stations here at all; petrol was bought and sold strictly off market in private transactions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.