WHY? or alternate title: Can one of you Brits explain this to me?

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Originally Posted by 45jim

Say what you will about British engineering, only they could invent the boiling vessel. A most welcome and civilized accessory on an AFV and beyond the engineering capability of the boffins in the rest of the known world.

While in the service I realised that the aircraft were also 24 volt, and the larger ones tended to have galleys to cook food. A quick check of the microfiche discovered that the 24v hotcups (US made) were non accountable and available in the system.

So with that, the coleman stove forever left the MRT, as I could heat up food, the foil ration packs, and even make hot water for shaving or washing up, and it didn't suck the life out of the batteries the way those larger boiling vessels did.

Later, while visiting the same surplus store that these collapsable funnels came from, I spotted a nifty pot that had a 24 volt heating element in it. Picked that up for a very reasonable sum and used it in co-ordination with the hot cup for the remainder of my career.

I think I still have the hotcup and the electric pot somewhere in my old barracks boxes downstairs.