[TR] winter storage

Tue May 3 11:45:53 MDT 2016

 The British were the fastest to realize the can's excellent design with the American's, as usual, having to try and "improve" a superior design, failing at every attempt, and finally adopting the design in it's entirety. The three handles are so one person, or two people with one on each side, can carry the can.

Sir Winston Churchill, 1/2 american by birth, once commented something along the lines of: "you can always trust the Americans to do the right thing. but not until they have exhausted all other possibilities".

      From: "Reihing, Randall S." <Randall.Reihing at utoledo.edu>
 To: dave n <dave at ranteer.com>; "triumphs at autox.team.net" <triumphs at autox.team.net> 
 Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:57 AM
 Subject: Re: [TR] winter storage

I agree! I would keep those cans in the family forever. Genuine WW II historical artifacts. 
Historical records list the Germans as the original inventor of the "Jerry", 4 liter or 5.3 US Gallon can before WW II. During WW II the British, Americans and Russians all realized the can was superior to what they were using and after a few variations eventually copied the design, still in use today. The British were the fastest to realize the can's excellent design with the American's, as usual, having to try and "improve" a superior design, failing at every attempt, and finally adopting the design in it's entirety. The three handles are so one person, or two people with one on each side, can carry the can.  
Dave, the two I have are very cool but not nearly as historical as what you have. Keep them forever, or maybe consider donating them to a museum. What a cool display they would make in your shop. So much history there. Not a single, ground based, gasoline powered vehicle on either side moved very far without those cans. 
Oddly, I was recently reading about President Roosevelt's WW II history and came across a passage where he actually referenced those "Jerry" cans and said without them the Allies would not have been as successful in France as we were. 
Some amazing history represented in those two cans. 
Randall Reihing
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wonderful history.  don’t ever let them go! From: Dave Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 6:45 AMTo: john.macartney at ukpips.org.uk ; Randall.Reihing at utoledo.edu ; dave at ranteer.com ; triumphs at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [TR] winter storage That's 'cause they were paced in cosmoline.  ;-)

Cheers and thanks for the remembrances.
  Dave Massey

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From: John Macartney <john.macartney at ukpips.org.uk>
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