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Gil 
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 Topic: WW2 Petroleum spirit canPosted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 4:03pm |
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Found this nice WW2 petroleum spirit can at a Fleamarket . It’s in really good shape,the army paint still on it. Giles   |
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 4:39pm |
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 5:14pm |
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Nice find.
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 5:30pm |
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Interesting!, must be a Canadian thing "EH", never seen one here!..... What fluid was in it! ?.... Canadian Club!
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 6:02pm |
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I sort of wondered what spirits are as well. The best I could come up with is it is white gas, "Coleman fuel" for use in gas lamps and such.
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 6:51pm |
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It is a gasoline can, petroleum spirits meaning it is distilled (petrol) and therefore not oil. This is the standard container for gasoline until the jerry can in WWII replaced it due to the physical weakness of the design. DonH
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So this was a British/Canadian item or US or both ?.... Lee
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 7:04pm |
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It's probably worthy of a research study. Not for me to do. I know that later in the war they preferred the captured German gas cans over the GI cans.
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 7:27pm |
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The US used similar tin cans but call it gasoline rather than petrol. The US military still uses the acronym POL to describe storage and production facilities and the class of products derived from oil. This stands for Petrol Oil Lubricants and is taken from the British descriptive term. The term petrol is mostly used in countries the were under the influence of the British Empire and the term gasoline in countries under the influence of US oil companies. The tin cans themselves were an oil industry standard container and used throughout the world. The cans are weak being made of tin coated steel and subject to crushing and puncturing when shipped in large quantities making them unsuitable for large scale military use. DonH |
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 7:41pm |
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Thanks DonH. but it still looks to be a mighty small container if you are wanting to fill up a vehicle.
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Posted: 19 Aug. 2018 at 8:01pm |
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Well, there's that plus the fact the cans are not easily refillable. In US use the cans were thrown away which is why the Allies started to manufacture the the stronger wider mouthed jerry cans that could hold either gasoline or petrol
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My understanding is that those pictured cans were called "flimsies". Is that correct?
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Posted: 20 Aug. 2018 at 4:24pm |
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Thanks, Rick!
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