From: Hanno Spoelstra (HL.Spoelstra@inter.NL.net)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 23:36:04 PDT
At 18:09 19-4-2002 +0100, Jim Webster wrote:
>OKMTRPOOL@aol.com wrote:
>> Does anyone have information or photographs of the "flimsy" gasoline
>> containers which predate the jerrycan?
>
>Look through any images of the desert war and you will see them being
>used for a variety of purposes - If they are making a brew its usually
>placed on a cooker made from a flimsy can.
>
>You will find a couple of images on my jerry cans page here...
>
>http://www.jed.simonides.org/misc/jerrycans/flimsy/flimsy.html
Jim,
What you show on your site is a 4 gallon petrol can. The flimsy was a tin
foil can in a wooden crate. It did not have a cap, the foil had to be
punctured to empty the can's contents. The flimsy could only be used once,
while the 4 gallon petrol can could be re-used.
Ref.: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CMP/messagesearch?query=flimsy
Regards,
Hanno
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