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The Wehrmachtkanister, a/k/a Jerrycan: Astonishingly good industrial design from the 1930s

November 4th, 2010 link to (permalink)

While the Allies of World War II certainly had the moral high ground over the Axis, it's almost embarassing to see how far the former was behind the latter in terms of industrial design. A good case in point is the object that today is known as the Jerrycan. ("Jerry" being Allied slang for "German."

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