Re: Jerry cans and oil drums


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Posted by Gordon_M [2.25.9.6] on Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 04:59:22 :

In Reply to: Re: Jerry cans and oil drums posted by Vaughn [99.14.87.69] on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 22:52:12 :

The Americans took the jerry can format and made it their own, but I'm not sure if the thread that was used did not derive from the ten gallon can that was in use before that - you can see plenty of them in the "Army on Wheels" video

I think the threaded jerry can was entirely a US thing. Boring British and German cans had a bung type spout and pourer.

Sherman is correct that WW2 was the primary driver for interchangeability in pretty much everything else apart from that thread tho'



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