Project completed

[Little Jo]

Derek

Thanks for the contact. I am happy with my jeep and look forward to having it registered so that I can drive it around. I have obtained 4 USA Jerry Cans to put on the vehicle plus other kit so it will look like a LRDG vehicle.

The German captured Jerry cans were used by the allies during WWII they later also used the USA made cans with screw lid oposed to the captured German Jerry cans flip top, both cans were more popular to the British square cans. I have attached some details from the LRDG equiptment used in the desert.

I hope you can get back to the Jeep some time.

Tony Van Rhoda
Little Jo

[Lang]

Tony,

I think you will find that the British just took the German cans and "reverse engineered" them very early on in the piece - well before the American cans appeared and they were issued to the Middle East to replace the square "flimsys". They are identical to the German cans and far superior to the American cans which are hopeless to pour, absolutely needing an often damaged or missing pourer, and suffer leaks because of the fine thread caps. Why the Americans insist on still using these cans to this day beats me when the rest of the world is using the original German design.

[Little Jo]

Lang

I agree, maybe it may have had something to do with maybe, having to admit the German version was the better Jerry Can, I know the big round screw top is a pr*ck to pour without a large funnel. I am sure it was nothing to do with a "Patent".

Tony Van Rhoda
Little Jo

[Marc Montgomery]

now you can sit back for a wee bit and watch a great film like KOKODA
no vehicles of course..but

courage, endurance, mateship, sacrifice

[Little Jo]

Marc

Yes mate, Seen the movie and enjoyed it. A crucial turning point in the Pacific war but not many movies made about this historic feat apart from the occasional documentary. Not many people were aware that the troops were CMF, (Citizen Military Force) also refered too as Chocos, (Chocolate Soldiers) or Week End Warriors, sent in as a blocking force while waiting for the AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) to return from the Middle East.

There endith the history lesson for today.

Cheers

Little Jo

Tony Van Rhoda