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It's going to relate to other stuff, isn't it?

 

For example, all the ordinary US wagon / pickup bed widths of the period would take four foot widths of material - Dodge truck pickup beds were 48 1/4" for this reason all the way through the war.

 

I'd guess that the barrel height was set to go across the wagon / truck bed, so it wouldn't exceed 48", stuff like that.

 

Gordon

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If you visit the Army Rumour Service RAC forum and search, you'll find pictures of Royal Scots Dragoon Guards on KAPE tour with CR2, the CR2s having 45-gallon drums of Irn Bru mounted on the rear engine decks in the style of T72 etc.

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And inextricably linked to the history of the 45 gallon oil drum is the Australian "Road Train".

 

The trailers were initially developed by haulage entrepeneur Kurt Johannsen for trundling around the outback behind his Diamond T 980/1 with the sole purpose of collecting empty drums (which in the late '40s / early '50s were in desperately short supply) for reconditioning and sale back to the oil companies.

 

Doing a HMVF search should bring up a reference to his book 'Son of the Red Centre' :-)

 

Correction - the trailers were developed a year before the great oil drum round-up of 1948, for sheep. Just checked the book and I was mistaken!

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I m suprised that no one has mentioned that Nellie Bly under took to do a trip around the world solo in 1889 to see if one could really go around the world in 80 days or less . She in fact did it in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes and 14 seconds in a race against another woman also a reporter . Nellie went east the other west around the globe.Also her work to uncover how bad condition were in the insane asylums as they were labeled in her day .

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