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Here's a humble design icon from the farm barn.

It's the standard Jerrycan. Designed in the 1930s for the German military, and given the catchy name Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister. It is full of clever design ideas and definitely fit for purpose.

The old fashioned screw top square petrol cans that our Tommies had were so uselss by comparison that they started comandeering any "Jerry Cans" they came across. Eventually this simple and iconic design was copied by the American and the Russian forces by the end of the War.


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