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2 Gal. Petrol Tin ID
This can is wider than the standard D^D, 2 gallon tin that one would find in the POW carrier of an Aust. CMP. Can any member ID same please. Rod
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Some of the Australian-manufactured 2 gallon cans are different dimensions to their Canadian and other Australian counterparts.
I wrote an article called 'Fill 'er Up Mate!' several years ago for Army Motors which provides the types and dimensions of the various 2 gallon cans, funnels and 4 gallon drums in use with the Australian Army during WW2. There appears to be something odd about the flex pourer shown in your image: these were made with a screw cap end, to engage the screw spout of the can, but the one in your image appears to have a rubber end? Or am I not seeing it properly? Mike C |
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cans and cans
I was sorting through a couple of 2 gal cans today for Rod and found four Aust D^D cans all differant, one was marked Fedral WA, one with the D^D pressed out, one with D^D pressed in and one with D^D pressed in under the handle.
How many other types of Aust cans are there?
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Canadian cans
All Canadian can I have found all seem the same apart from the date.
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Valor was a paraffin stove maker in UK and most civilian petrol company cans from prewar era were made by them, date is on the bottom as well.
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...and Willow were a sheet metal manufacturer in Australia, more famous for cake tine and the like. Their emblem was the word 'willow' within an elongated diamond.
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My understanding is that pre war, in these 2 gal tins, was the only way petrol could be purchased at least here in N.Z. anyway.
Is this another misnomer that I have lived with for many years, or is it true? Didn't all dis-ad-vintaged cars carry them?
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Pre war petrol
Petrol was also sold in NZ in wooden crates containing two 4 gal cans (aka flimsies to some). Many had soldered openings requiring the user to puncture the can to open it. I have seen a pourer which included a spike. (will get a photo).
These were sold at general stores in the country areas. Later on the petrol companies argued that these stores shouldn't sell petrol from bowsers as they also sold food. Decades later we buy food at petrol stations - go figure! Rob |
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The 'Willow' trademark is also found on the wartime tins of gas detector paint which Aussie disposals were selling years ago, usually dated 1943. Willow made garden watering cans and many other sheet metal products.
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Willow made the paint cans, not the paint, of course.
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