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Sat Jul 24 2010 11:49 AM
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Just returned from a flea market. I couldn't resist this 5 gallon container. It appears to never been any color other than black, so it probably wasn't used for gasoline. Also there is no cover or provisions for one. Ilooked up the patent number but it is for the coriguating and lettering in the metal skin. Does anyone have an idea of it's use?
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looks like an old gas container to me.
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It was for bulk oil on a bulk delivery truck 
Wanted Owens Motor Oil & Mobiloil Gargoyle. Brad Ralston & my website is www.petrobarn.com
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I have always considered them to be bulk containers, used on a fuel truck and/or wagon. Used to transfer small quantities of Kerosene, gas ... etc.
Very nice looking with the pour-spout.
Brad, used the words I was searching for. LOL
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Remember that the earlier fuel trucks had no pumps and no hoses. They used 5gal. cans with pour spouts to take the fuel to the tanks they were filling.
The can pictured could have been used for that, but the spout seems a little too wide.
The spouts on the transfer cans that I have are quite a bit narrower.
Imagine filling furnace oil tanks all winter long carrying two 5gal. cans at a time till you got the tanks full. That's why the older Tank Wagons had the counters on the doors of the rear compartments so the driver wouldn't lose count.
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Counter on the left door. They look nice sand blasted & mounted on a wood plaque.
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Makes sense to me. When did the law take effect that any container used for gasoline had to be red?
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