British made cans

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Re: British made cans

Post by Rustman » Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:50 pm

There is a lot of information on these cans in the Jerry Can Forum on Facebook. Great discussion group and the original yellow has been discussed and documented quite a bit.

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Re: British made cans

Post by David V » Mon Apr 27, 2020 4:47 am

I'm not on Facebook. I know I would spend my life on it and just become too distracted. What's App is bad enough.
Any yellow refs would be helpful though.

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Re: British made cans

Post by Rustman » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:19 am

Take a look at RAL1024 'yellow ochre' although some cans appeared to be an even brighter almost lemon yellow. There's a Krylon paint in the US "Matte Wild Honey" which seems to match pretty well.

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Re: British made cans

Post by David V » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:29 am

Thanks. Actually that's pretty close to the original paint on the j-can. That's put me on the right track.
Interesting typing RAL1024 in Google images so see such a range of the "same" colour .

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Re: British made cans

Post by gerrykan » Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:59 pm

David,
It won't really help on the exact shade of color, but if you search the LIFE photo collection ( http://images.google.com/hosted/life ) there are some WWII colour photos from the Arabian region showing large stacks of sand/yellow jerrycans at a petroleum facility.
I had links saved on a previous computer, of course that is of no help to either of us now.
Happy hunting if you decide to look.
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Re: British made cans

Post by REG » Fri May 08, 2020 10:42 pm

Check this video which demonstrates how frequent they were http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... d-supplies
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Re: British made cans

Post by David V » Sat May 09, 2020 1:14 am

Sacrilege ! treating those poor cans like that.
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Post by REG » Fri May 22, 2020 11:28 am

It is upsetting and, I would hasten to say, rather reckless
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Re: British made cans

Post by Léon » Sat May 29, 2021 11:27 pm

Some information on British manufacturers :wink:

https://philippeleger5.wixsite.com/jerr ... ricants-uk
Approximate English possible error sorry !

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Jerrycans German, USA, UK, French ...

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Re: British made cans

Post by Pieminister » Sat Jun 05, 2021 12:34 am

Here are some pics from 1943-45 in Egypt,where my father helped build a factory (He was a RE sergeant)Image[/img]
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Re: British made cans

Post by 70th Division » Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:06 am

Hello Pieminister,

That is outstanding, what great pictures from your father's efforts during the War.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing the pictures !!
Looks like he did a great job in Egypt getting that factory up and running making those gas cans to fuel the Allied efforts !!
Wouldn't it be nice to find that factory, and discover all the tooling and machines still there !!

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