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baldwin


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By this I mean the metal ones. Were they in use/invented by the time of the 1 War???



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Interesting question,I have some painted but was not sure if they could be placed on my diowink

greetings,Hans. 



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Can't specifically remember seeing any photos, but the 55 (U.S.) Gallon oil drum (45 gal Imperial) was patented in 1905.

http://aoghs.org/technology/the-remarkable-nellie-bly/

There's a photo of a Schneider with a drum labelled "Moteurine" fastened to the rear, but I can't tell how big the drum is. I'm sure they would have made their way to Europe by the time of the War.



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Yes. I recall a picture of the airfield at Evere, in Belgium, where several Junkers airplanes were found, and there were also a lot of metal barrels there. The ribbing was heavier than later models, but the size must have been more or less the same.
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I've never seen a photograph of one myself in use by the British or Empire forces

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Evening,

I'm not sure, but could this be an oil drum used by Germans??

First picture shows "Beute panzer", 2 and 3 an enlargement of a drum confuse at the back of picture 1

DJ

Beute.jpg

Oil drum.jpg

Drum big.jpg

 



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Yes, that does look remarkably like a 200 litre POL drum. Mrs Seaman, talking about her patent much later in life acknowledges that she got the notion from "steel containers for glycerine in Europe" - http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F50B1FFD355A15738DDDA10A94DE405B818DF1D3 - so presumably the Germans would have been well aware of the potential for POL use. Her patent (as she discusses it above) seems to be mostly about the method of making them - oddly enough the dimensions or ratio of diameter to height is probably the where the "art" of the things comes into it. They are fairly well optimal for "ease" of manhandling (under various conditions) at the maximum capacity by a lone person. The minimum amount of material used in manufacture (which would otherwise be a major criterion if not the the sole one) is very different - height = diameter for a closed cylinder-shape (flat ends) whereas these big POL barrels have a height of around one and a half diameters or more and are quite "uneconomical" with materials.



-- Edited by Rectalgia on Wednesday 12th of October 2011 09:42:15 AM

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