Mk 2 Carrier water can

[Robert Bergeron]

Friends,

Could take a while 'cause in am out of town for work.

[Robert Bergeron]

Hello,

This is all i could find as far as Canadian oil cans.

The one standing is GSW and dated 1944 ( same year as my Carrier).

The prone one is marqued GSW 1941.

Anybody else ?

Cheers.

Robert

[chris vickery]

As far as 2 gallon cans go, I have owned and sold many over the years. It seems to me that as far as rarity goes, Petrol is easiest to find followed by Water and then Oil. For whatever reason the 2 gallon Oil seems to be scarce.
One gallon cans are even harder to find. I probably find 10 of the two gallon ones for ever one gallon can. As far as colour, I have ever only had OD or brown versions of all types and never white or grey as mentioned previously.

[Ron Pier]

My 1 gall oil cans are both GSW 1943 and 1944. Ron

[Ron Pier]

My Canadian 2 gall cans which I painted myself are presumably ex petrol cans and are both GSW 41. Ron

[Robert Bergeron]

Thanks Ron.

Tan colour for a Canadian oil or petrol can is a new one for me.

But black ? Was there originaly ever a Canadian black petrol, water or oil can ?

I know we paint them black to fit on our mk 2 Carriers but why do we do that ?

We are collectively advancing our knowledge. Keep it coming.

Cheers.

Robert

[Ron Pier]

Well I painted mine black through lack of knowledge I guess. I was pretty sure that the British water cans were black and the pictures I looked at seemed to show them as black, but I didn't know about any grey colour at the time. I'd also like to know for sure. Ron

[Tony Smith]

Originally Posted by Robert Bergeron

Thanks Ron.

Tan colour for a Canadian oil or petrol can is a new one for me.

I think there was a period photo a couple of years ago on this forum of the set of tools and accessories on either a CMP or Carrier and the photo included a "Sand" coloured POL can and stirred some discussion at the time.

A Search doesn't seem to find it, so possibly it was on the old forum?