Great War truck Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Who invented the 55 gallon oil drum and when was it first used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 invented by Nellie Bly in 1904 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Why 55 gallon, and is that Imperial or US? I'd normally refer to one as 45 gallon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Why 55 gallon, and is that Imperial or US? I'd normally refer to one as 45 gallon Thats quite right. 55 US gallons = 45 Imperial gallons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 invented by Nellie Bly in 1904 So it was. Well done and what an interesting life she had. I found a photo of US Army 55 gallon oil drums on the Western front. The first photo i have seen of them during WW1. Thanks Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Heres the story on Nellie , interesting person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I'd be more iclined to belive McEwen's Export, with Single Malt on command vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) 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! Edited April 22, 2010 by N.O.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo578 Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 AlienFTM ........the CR2s having 45-gallon drums of Irn Bru mounted on the rear engine decks ....... Isn't the use of of a noxious chemical like Irn Bru against arms limitation treaty?:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I'd have thought even Dorchester isn't proof against the stuff if it leacks. :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Isn't the use of of a noxious chemical like Irn Bru against arms limitation treaty?:-D Nah, Comes under the Heading NBC Warfare!...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 (edited) 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 . Edited April 22, 2010 by abn deuce spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Oops! Just put a correction on my Oz road-train post, the sheep beat the oil drums to the first ride by a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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