OT Interesting bit od history. Jerry can.

[harryagain]

[therustyone]

I do remember English petrol cans still in use in the 50's on farms. Built like a squat oil can with a brass cap and flat sides. Smaller and flimsy compared to the jerry version.

[Michael Chare]

Interesting thank you. It is surprising how difficult it was to make people see the advantages.

[Nightjar]

Vinzenz Grünvogel, who designed the can, was a friend of my partner's family and she met him a few times.

The British wartime petrol tin was a flimsy rectangular container, intended to be disposable. In the Western Desert, Steven Sykes, part of the camouflage section, used large numbers of them to simulate railway lines for a dummy railhead, which the Germans bombed.

[fred]

I have one still in use. Not sure if it is original as I can't remember where I bought it. It has the locking cap and the air tube but I never got a spout with it. It pours quite cleanly without a spout thanks to the air tube.

[Dave Liquorice]

I've got three red, white, and green. Yeah OK 20 l of green isn't legal BWTH.

These are all modern ones, local garage and Machine Mart I think. Locking cap, I shall have to check for air tube I think they have it. I only ever use them to top up vehicles so always use a spout, that has an air hole and tube but still bubbles and glugs.

[amcmaho]

On the manufacturer's jerrycan.com website.

Their claim; " The only real and legal WWII NATO jerry cans in the United States. If it's not made by Wavian..It's Fake." is a bit ironic, given that they were copied from the German originals.

Surely they're all fake, unless made by genuine Jerries (or Jerries' slave labour).

[charles]

and NATO wasn't co-incident with WW2. It came into being just under 4 years after the end of WW2.