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The jerrycan is a robust liquid container originally made from pressed steel. It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel. Three handles allow for two people carrying a full can or one person handling an empty can. The basic design is still in use today although construction is ...
A jerrycan or jerrican (also styled jerry can or jerri can) [1] is a fuel container made from pressed steel (and more recently, high density polyethylene). It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel, and saw widespread use by both Germany and the Allies during the Second World War .
This design is still in production across both NATO and Warpac(sic) countries. When the US saw them, they ignored them, then they re-invented them as a poor design. The US design is not a "jerrycan" as is the scope of interest here. The US did not adopt the jerrycan, the German-designed NATO-standard jerrycan, as standard until the 1970s.
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A handle can be defined as “an accessory attached to a container or part for the purpose of holding or carrying.” [5] Sometimes a handle can be used to hang a package for dispensing or use. Handles can be built into a package, sometimes in the form of hand holes or hand holds. They can also be attached to a finished complete package after ...
Jerry's Kids may refer to: Children assisted by the Muscular Dystrophy Association are referred to as Jerry's Kids; Jerry's Kids (band), one of the earliest Boston hardcore bands "Jerry's Kids", a song by punk group Sloppy Seconds, on the EP The First Seven Inches
The customer then requests what sounds like "four candles". The shopkeeper then takes out four candles, but the customer merely repeats his request and the shopkeeper is confused. The customer rephrases his request to reveal he in fact wanted "fork 'andles - 'andles [handles] for forks" (as in garden forks). He then asks for "plugs".
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.