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Old 24-10-20, 05:10
Harry Moon Harry Moon is offline
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Old 25-11-20, 01:29
Bruce Parker (RIP) Bruce Parker (RIP) is offline
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I recently got this 2 gallon can. It started out as a Canadian GSW 'Petroleum Spirit' (gas) can dated 1940 and painted standard khaki. Then it received a very well done coat of red paint with the lettering in metallic silver stenciled on one side as shown.

I read:

.R.C.O.C. (iffy on the "O")
- M ? - (second letter not round, maybe T or P but very illegible)

So is this a military painted can to the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corp or some post war civilian repaint? If military I would refinish it as-is. Otherwise it gets painted khaki and loaded into a vehicle rack.

What do you think?
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Old 25-11-20, 02:25
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Whatever the markings represent, IMO it would be a shame to refinish or even repaint it.
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Old 25-11-20, 03:29
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Whatever the markings represent, IMO it would be a shame to refinish or even repaint it.
Sorry Ed, to clarify by refinish in its current form I mean clean and stabilize. If it is from some post war gas station I really have no interest in preserving the markings and hope no collector of such memorabilia ever finds out.

For my vehicles I need 15 2 gallon and 4 1 gallon cans so it's quantity over quality.
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Old 25-11-20, 04:21
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Bruce.

Somewhere in the Niagra Region of Ontario during the Cold War, there was an entity known as the Regional Operations Communications Centre. Its reason for being, what it actually did, and where, I do not know.

I would put money on the odds that can is connected to that organization rather than the Canadian Army.

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Old 25-11-20, 04:33
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Bruce.

Somewhere in the Niagra Region of Ontario during the Cold War, there was an entity known as the Regional Operations Communications Centre. Its reason for being, what it actually did, and where, I do not know.

I would put money on the odds that can is connected to that organization rather than the Canadian Army.

David
Thanks Dave. The third letter is may be an O but not a C. It might work if the organization was the 'Regional Communications Operations Centre'. The quality of the paint and application tells me this is not a local gas station job.
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Old 25-11-20, 04:44
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I am a Twit, Bruce, and it is wayyy past my bedtime!

The organization I am thinking of is indeed, the ‘Regional Communications Operations Centre’. The rest of my other post is correct. For some reason in this section, my fingers were apparently already in Neverland!

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