[djaychela]

Having had many vehicles and also done a drive to Banjul in The Gambia from the UK, plus done 10 years of rally driving, I've had a great many jerry cans. They are indeed a great design, and the triple-handle allowing easy carrying of two empties in one hand on either side of the body is only one of their high points.

I'd never given a moment's thought to the name, but as soon as I started reading the article, I realised where it came from... It's funny how we don't always think of the origins of words until prompted by something like this.

[hef19898]

A funny side note on that: I'm German, we call those things Benzinkanister. My wife is French, they call them jerrycan. I never understood what she meant (ultimately I figured it out, and then I took me again a long time to connect "Jerry" to the Germans in WW2).

And yes, those things are handy!