nebelwerfer Posted April 3, 2017 Share #1 Posted April 3, 2017 Last weekend I was visiting a flea market in Coblenz / Germany. A seller sold some US things he get out a house in Rhens. In this town south of Coblenz, parts of the 87th Division crossed the Rhine river. One thing I bought was this Jerry Can. I have seen reproduction Octane Tags in the past (but they look different), but tihs one was my first original I saw. Why and for what reason were they used, Could not be used much, because I found many Gas Cans in the past, but never with octane tag. Gruß christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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M422A1 Posted April 3, 2017 Share #4 Posted April 3, 2017 I would think it would be so they could tell the difference between low octane for jeeps, trucks & tanks and high octane for planes. They would only need it if they had both types of gas stored near each other, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbtcoveralls Posted April 5, 2017 Share #5 Posted April 5, 2017 I have the original Army Motors issue from when the octane tags were first introduced. The Army had noticed that there was an increase in mis-fueling incidents The Jerry can had just been adopted and cans and drums stored in the open quickly lost their paper labels and markings meaning nobody could directly identify what was in there Since the Army used the same cans and drums for all kinds of POL they came up with the tags as a way of marking the contents They are supposed to be different colors for different POL (gas, Diesel oil, 100 octane av gas etc) the tags are also different shapes with emobssed numbers that can be felt under blackout conditions Super nice Jerry can by the way, There's a page on the G503 website devoted to the humble jerry can Tom Bowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebelwerfer Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share #6 Posted April 10, 2017 Hi, thank you for this information! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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