Original British WWII Vickers Machine Gun Water Esso Spirit Can - Petrol 2 Gallons British Field Gear The English proofed

The English proofed

The metal has a lovely pewter patina to it and is mostly smooth with some light scattered patches of peppering and minor pinpricking

The Italian Army requested minor changes to reduce production costs

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1 Dec 2009-

Original British WWII Vickers Machine Gun Water Esso Spirit Can - Petrol 2 Gallons British Field Gear The English proofedOriginal Item: Only One Available. Original aviation can showing the ESSO logo clearly stamped on each side. Originally these WW2 cans were manufactured to contain Petrol (gasoline) and were embossed with a large ESSO logo on the top and: ESSO PETROLEUM SPIRIT HIGHLY INFLAMMABLE In short order, however, these were adopted by the Machine Gun Corp to be used as water condensing can with the water cooled Vickers Machine Guns. The rapid Machine gun fire