Thanks Joe, I had forgotten about this one.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
on 2001/07/09 00.58, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pat Naughtin reported in USMA 14181:
>
>> Drums - 20 L: Twenty litre motor oil drums were designed so that 10 of these
>> smaller drums could be filled from a standard 200 L drum.
>
>
> The German army in WW II used a 20 L gasoline can. It was copied by the
> Allied forces, who called it the "jerrycan".
>
> Joseph B. Reid
> 17 Glebe Road West
> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
>
