british 4 gallon can

[tankbarrell]

There seems to be a little confusion here. My cans are the same as the ones Chaz posted, with screw on caps. The pic I posted is of the underside. Good spot on the 41 though, hadn't noticed that, I'll check on the can itself and report back.

Regarding the use of flimsies, there is plenty of evidence that the early style without screw cap were used for petrol and proved to be next to useless. The improved style such as mine, are quite well made from a reasonably heavy gauge steel. They do not feel at all flimsy and indeed have stood up to 60+ years of use rather well.

The early style that I consider to be the real flimsy seem to be more or less extinct. I would imagine there is a good reason for that fact!

[gerrykan]

There seems to be a little confusion here. My cans are the same as the ones Chaz posted, with screw on caps.

tankbarrel.
Sorry, I misunderstood your previous post. I will try to abate the confusion on my end.

[tankbarrell]

Gerrycan,

no worries, I could have been clearer in my post!

Upon checking, my MMOR can has 5-41 stencilled on the underside. I've had it for a few years and never noticed that before!

Adrian

[cletrac]

Those cans are known as POW cans. (petrol, oil, water) The water cans were usually painted white and the oil and petrol usually desert yellow or khaki green. Most Canadian and British trucks in WW2 had POW carriers under the box between the rear wheels and the endgate with a hinged door to hold the cans in place.

[Chaz]

Those cans are known as POW cans. (petrol, oil, water) The water cans were usually painted white and the oil and petrol usually desert yellow or khaki green. Most Canadian and British trucks in WW2 had POW carriers under the box between the rear wheels and the endgate with a hinged door to hold the cans in place.

Hi Celtrac, the can carriers I've seen on wartime British and Canadian vehicles have all been for the common 2 gallon POW cans, not the 4 gallon flimsey type being discussed in this thread.
Cheers,

Chaz

[tipdog]

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[SteveJ]

great pic!!

[tipdog]

FOUND IT!

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I recall seeing a website that had photographs of the various BRITISH jerry can manufacturers, and even included the flimsies. I'm pretty sure it was not the Jerry Can site that's hosted in France.

[gerrykan]

bump

Be careful tipdog, there is one guy here that may chastise you for bumping up old posts!

[lucakiki]

Be careful tipdog, there is one guy here that may chastise you for bumping up old posts!

Not always, Roy, not always!
Look what "one guy" once wrote!

It would seem that Sean and Luca have utilized both the search and the quote features of the gee to point out the contradictions of BobN's ever-changing point of view regarding OD and I would imagine, BD as well.

[Chuck Lutz]

No problem in bumping up old posts if the info is RELEVANT to the topic and pics help in the discussion, but when it is designed not to inform anyone but with some other agenda....the gee is not benefitting from it at all.

"Cherry-Picking" old posts is a favorite pastime for some.....

[Silly's MB]

I recently came across this picture of a flimsy in use albeit on a tank (Crusader) in Egypt.
The Funnel being used is also made from a flimsy.

British Flimsy red.jpg (233.24 KiB) Viewed 2254 times

[Silly's MB]

I also came across this the other day as well showing alternative uses for used Flimsies.

Shame it has no sound but you get the idea !

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=75286" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;