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Old 25-12-20, 19:14
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Default POW can GSW 1945 only

Hi, I'm looking for a Petrol, Water or Oil can made by GSW in 1945 ONLY.
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Old 26-12-20, 01:24
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We are choosy are we .....
I bet by 1945 they figured things were winding down and they were sitting on a glut of POL cans (dated 1940 through 1944) so didn't punch out many 1945 dated ones. Put that against a collector and...well...
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Old 26-12-20, 04:37
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Default The good old days.....

.....circa 1954 my Dad would buy Naphta (white gas) for camping.... one burner stove army surplus and a Coleman lantern that were rebuilt using truck loads of loose parts from Palmer junkyard in beautiful downtown Hull.

Naptha was purchased at Romanuck general store ( Polish Immigrants) for about 0.25 cents a gallon for 0.60 cents he included a new POL can which has survived to this day...... I do not dare clean it up of all the paint splatters on the sides and prefer paying the current price for my collection. A few years later my Dad would let me clean up grease deposits/residue from the inside of B/W TV sets he was servicing.......... greasy spoon restaurants usually had the TV set on a shelf near the ceiling above the cooking grill...... they would get so covered with grease the mechanical contacts and other switches in the tuner would not work. Naptha and an old stiff paint brush did wonders..... also took care of the cockroaches......... later graduated to Carbon Tet from surplus fire extinguishers.... it would dry up and crack your skin.... it is a wonder I still have lungs!!!!!

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Old 26-12-20, 04:39
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As well, by 1945, the jerry can was the new standard for holding fluids.
I'll have a peek at my collection of cans out in the shed...be interesting to see how hard it is (or isn't) to find a 45 dated can.
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Old 26-12-20, 14:12
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I have in my collection the series from 1940 to 1944. I was wondering if GSW had made POW in 1945.
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Old 26-12-20, 16:04
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Photos are always nice. Perhaps you could post a pic of your collection in THIS THREAD, cleverly hidden as a MkII* Carrier topic.
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Old 26-12-20, 18:18
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Tony I placed the photos from part of my collection on the thread.
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Old 28-12-20, 02:04
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Lots of petrol tins in this Exercise Eskimo photograph from early 1945.

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Old 28-12-20, 02:10
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Hi Ed.

The ones in the foreground look like the 4 gallon tall ones. Cannot tell for sure about the rest of them.

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