So poorly designed and manufactured, most were only able to be used once they were then being modified for stoves or filled with soil and used as makeshift sandbags. Among all these issues, the handle was a single strip of bent steel, which wasn’t comfortable for a soldier to carry over distances (while dodging bullets and land mines). That’s four required parts, not including the can itself. Plus you’d need a funnel to fill it and a spout to pour it. To access the liquid contents, you needed a wrench to remove the cap, which was a separate piece. They would often leak around these long welded lines, and these fuel leaks would often cause vehicle fires…clearly not ideal.
They were made of several panels of thin (easily-punctured) flat mild-steel plates, which were welded together part by part (costly and time-consuming). In order to truly appreciate the Jerrycan (a nickname coined by US forces, as “Jerry” was a slang term for Germans), we need to first look at the Allied Forces 4-gallon fuel canisters. That fuel must be efficiently stored and transported to aide the soldiers and war machines on the front lines. One of the most important resources being fuel. Originally called “ Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister” (German for “armed forces unit canister”) it was developed in Germany in the 1930’s for military use. Let’s look at one of these truly important historic carry products, the Jerrycan.
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