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A jerrycan or jerrican or jerry can is a robust fuel container made from pressed steel. Image File history File links Gnome-globe. ...
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Fuel is any material that is capable of releasing energy when its chemical or physical structure is changed or converted. ...
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The jerrycan was invented by the Germans during a secret project ordered by Hitler. The Germans called it the Wehrmachtskanister. The Germans had thousands of jerrycans stockpiled by 1939 in anticipation of war. Hitler redirects here. ...
Today similar designs are used for fuel and water containers, some of which are also produced in plastic. The designs usually emulate the original steel design and are still known as jerrycans, although they have also been called "jerryjugs" (or "jerry jugs", just as jerrycan is sometimes spelt as two words as well).
History
The history of the Jerrycan is notable due to the fact that it was reverse engineered during World War II. Reverse engineering (RE) is the process of taking something (a device, an electrical component, a software program, etc. ...
American lack of interest In the summer of 1939, an American engineer named Paul Pleiss had built a vehicle to journey to India with his German colleague. After building the car, they realized they didn't have any storage for emergency water. The engineer had access to the stockpile of Jerrycans at Tempelhof Airport and just managed to take three. They drove across 11 national borders without incident until Field Marshal Goering sent a plane to take the engineer home. The German engineer compounded his treason by giving Pleiss complete specifications for the manufacture of the can. Pliess continued on to Calcutta, put his car in storage, and flew back to Philadephia. Tempelhof Central Airport, a. ...
Pleiss told American military officials about the can, but they ignored him. Without a sample, he realized he could get nowhere. He eventually got the car shipped to New York by a roundabout method, and sent a can to Washington. The War Department decided instead to use the WWI ten-gallon can with two screw closures, which required both a wrench and funnel for pouring.
The one American jerrycan was sent to Camp Holabird, Maryland, where it was redesigned. It only retained the handles, size and shape. The weld was replaced with rolled seams, the lining was removed and it now required a wrench and a funnel. Camp Holabird was a USA army camp in Maryland state. ...
The original design proved far superior and these fuel containers were subsequently used in all theatres of war around the world. In warfare, a theater or theatre is normally used to define a specific geographic area within which armed conflict occurs. ...
British necessity At the beginning of the Second World War, the British Army were equipped with simple rectangular fuel containers: a 2 Imperial gallon (9 litres) container made of pressed steel and a 4 gallon (18 litres) container made from tin plate. While the 2 gallon containers were relatively strong, they were expensive to produce. The 4 gallon containers, which were mainly manufactured in the third world, were cheap and plentiful but they were not very robust. Consequently they were colloquially known as flimsies. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ...
Imperial Measure was a former system of measurement used in some Commonwealth nations, most notably the United Kingdom and Canada. ...
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While adequate for transportation by road in Europe, the flimsies proved to be extremely unsatisfactory during the North African Campaign and severely hampered the operation of the British 8th Army. The transportation of fuel over rough terrain often resulted in much of the fuel being lost as the containers were easily punctured. The resultant leakages also made the transportation vehicles liable to fuel fires. During World War II, the North African Campaign, also known as the Desert War, took place in the North African desert from September 13, 1940 to May 13, 1943. ...
The Eighth Army was one of the best-known formations in World War II, fighting in the campaigns in North Africa and Italy. ...
When the British Army first saw the German fuel cans during the invasion of Norway in 1940, the British immediately saw the advantages of the superior design. The containers had three handles on them to allow for easy handling by one or two people, or to be moved bucket brigade-style; the sides of the can were marked with cross-like indentations that allowed the contents of the can to expand; when filled, the cans retained an air pocket so that they would float on water; and rather than a screw cap, the containers used a cam lever release mechanism with a short spout secured with a snap closure and an air-pipe to the air pocket which enabled smooth pouring. The interior was also lined with an impervious plastic, first developed for steel beer barrels that would allow the can to be used for either water or gasoline. The can was welded, and had a gasket for a leak-proof mouth. The British used cans captured from the "gerrys" (Germans) — hence "gerrycans" or "jerrycans" — in preference to their own containers as much as possible. Later in 1940 Pleiss was in London, and British officers asked him about the design and manufacture of the jerrycan. Pleiss ordered the second of his three jerrycans flown to London. A Bucket brigade is a method for transporting items where a string of static people pass the items to the next person. ...
Jerry was a nickname given to World War II German soldiers, the German armed forces, or collectively the entirety of Nazi Germany. ...
External links - Pro Quip International Distributing the only Australian Standards Approved, High Quality, Classic Jerry Can style Metal Jerry Cans.--PQIPL 05:56, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
- World War II era German Jerrycan
- More info on Gerrycan history, usage & markings
- WEBpackaging a retailer with a significant inventory of jerrycans.
- [1] 20L plastic Jerry Cans currently used by U.S. and CDN Forces.
Citation - Desmond Young, historian.
- Richard M. Daniel, retired commander in the US Naval Reserve [2]
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