The jerrycan design goes back over 80 years, and it’s showing no signs of retirement

[Old Fart]

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/jerrycan-design-80-years-no-signs-retirement/?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20_November_11_Newsletter_NewDD

https://i.postimg.cc/rsxB6fKW/Wehrmacht-einheitskanister-Wiki-commons-Arche-foto.jpg

[xeninworx]

I liked what the one guest comedian on Top Gear called it, a petrol suitcase.

[RedSN]

We had about 4-5 of them on the farm. Was my job to fill them (with a hand pump no less) and bring them back to my Dad to keep the combine running. The old Massey combine with a Chevy 327 could burn the fuel almost as fast as I could come back with refills.

Were like this one with the flip top

https://photos.smugmug.com/Miscellaneous/i-hWBwbSn/0/1969cf2b/S/24EFA3DB-4D50-41EB-9BB3-234530F7F78F-S.jpg
circa 1964, US Military, Vietnam.

[hammerhead]

I have a couple of old cans but smaller - metal maybe 5 gallons with some funky fuel in them - will try to remember to take pics