Mk 2 Carrier water can

[Kirk Armitage]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

Oh how I wish I could buy these repro at $10 a pop from China. I think I'm up to 19 I need to fill my bins and would happily do it with lookalike dummies.

Kirk, is the cap thread size the same? Does the filler look grafted on?

Had another look Bruce , caps are the same , no ring on the neck for a chain. All the solder joints are old look ing, galvanized metal showing where scratched/chipped . If someone weathered this, their good. Either way it's going on the shelf as a possible imposter , but still green. Lol Kirk

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

I wonder what WW1 and between the wars cans look like. Maybe slide it from the imposter shelf to the incredibly rare one?

[rob love]

Here is a link to a distributor of these cans in the UK. Some are impressed with company script like shell and castrol, and others are merely painted. Some of these cans are being made in aluminum as well. I saw a link on another site for newly made cans in distressed look.
https://www.reproductions.co.uk/27-c...il-cans?page=5

We may well be able to fill our vehicles with not only reproduction cans of good quality, but also cans that can contain useable fluids.