Jerry Cans - fuel transport of WW2

I learnt a lot about these pressed & welded containers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUkbGHFAhs

I watched this video some time ago. Up until then some aspects of the design looked a bit odd to me until the features were explained in the video.

I saw that a while ago. It really is fascinating!

The after market ones are pretty crap. The metal is too thin. I only use ex MOD ones much stronger and durable.

The Germans had some brilliant designers and engineers where pressed metal construction and fabrication was concerned. Nobody else seemed to be even close

The MG42 for instance was considered to be a war austerity design when first captured by the allies and it took them a while to twig to its simple reliable cheap design brilliance

Cut to the end of the war and the Russkies got hold of most of the tooling and staff for the pressed metal arnaments industry in Germany

...the AK47 magically appears in 1945 and its trials are completed by 1947

And the rest is history, as they say.

And it's insatiable need for massive amounts fresh pointy metal brrrrrrrrup

I was REME in 1953, and we had a jerry can factory at 2 base workshops Tel el Kebir, a lot of the operatives were from East Africa. The impressed part of the jerry can was coloured for identification, to show drinking water, petrol and diesel. We were told just how bad the British square petrol can were, leaked like a colander and with the handle on top it was difficult to stack them, not so the jerry can. Jerry can, easy to construct, to pour and fill, well thought out as were most of their gear. John

Which made it get very hot very quickly.

JA

5000 howling russians coming straight at you means you get really good at swapping barrels and humping ammo cases about, you learn very fast. Very very fast.

And more-or-less reduced the others in the squad to ammunition mules.

I noticed in a recent video report from a Ukrainian dug-out a Maxim gun.

JA