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Originally Posted by Keith Webb
Did a LOT of walking around the hundreds of stalls last Friday - absolutely amazing amount of useful stuff there although not a lot of it useful to me.
However, I did find (and bought) this Jerrycan dated 1940. Are there any experts on this subject on MLU?
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Keith I think you will find it is an original German Army can which was copied by the British and Americans and nick named 'Jerry' Can as the Germans were the original owners. These copies then replaced the British flimsies.
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"and on the 8th day he made trucks so that man, made on the 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night"
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