woa2 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Does anyone know who the manufacturer is of a British Jerrycan with RTMP on it? I tried the Jerrycan book, but no luck. Many thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Robert I wonder if it might be Ronald Trist & Co Ltd who were military & naval contractors? The marking might indicate Ronald Trist Metal Pressings? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I tried to post earlier, but this site seems to time out before I can finish. My thoughts were Richard Thomas & Co. who were steel and tinplate pressworks in South Wales, in 1945 they merged to become Richard Thomas & Baldwins. Now I have come across postwar cans with RTB on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rover8FFR Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 I noticed some letters on the Cans on the outside of Fv1611a and they had initials like mentioned after the WD and date. All 3 are from the 50's so next time will take a note of letters. I might be wrong but all 3 could be different manufacturers initials???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerry275 Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Found an interesting site http://ww2jerrycans.com/ they list RTMP but no info. Gerry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret1958uk Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 Not all of the manufacturers of the WD jerry cans were based in the UK, and even those there were 'based' in the UK may have had manufacturing plants outside of the UK. The company you are looking for may have been making these cans in any British Territory such as Canada, India, New Zealand, Australia, Aden etc. Particularly in war time it is fun to see where some British companies had operations. Rio Tinto for instance was a London based mining company that operated Zinc mines in Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 Found an interesting site http://ww2jerrycans.com/ they list RTMP but no info. Gerry A few of the jerrycans on the site are from my collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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