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  • Thumbnail for Catastrophic kill
    petrol tin with holes punched in the side as a makeshift stove on which to brew their tea. The flames licking out of the holes in the side of the tin...
    2 KB (276 words) - 05:14, 1 December 2023
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    steel, and the 4-imperial-gallon (18 L; 4.8 US gal) container made from tin plate. The 2-gallon containers were relatively strong, but were expensive...
    23 KB (2,556 words) - 04:40, 20 July 2024
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    Western Desert Campaign, 1942-3. Oxford: Casemate Publishers. p. 109. ISBN 978-1612002880. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Four gallon petrol tins....
    4 KB (432 words) - 13:01, 2 July 2023
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    seaplanes. Bulk petrol storage consisted of 15,000 imperial gallons (68,000 L; 18,000 US gal) in 2-imperial-gallon (9.1 L; 2.4 US gal) tins stowed on the...
    44 KB (6,023 words) - 06:32, 4 July 2024
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    Inhalant (redirect from Petrol sniffing)
    Chronic, heavy petrol sniffing appears to occur among remote, impoverished indigenous communities, where the ready accessibility of petrol has helped to...
    76 KB (8,842 words) - 03:47, 6 August 2024
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    Sungai Lembing (category Tin mines in Malaysia)
    founded in the 1900s as a tin mining community when the British company Pahang Consolidated Company Limited (PCCL) set up the tin mining industry there after...
    29 KB (2,569 words) - 13:30, 4 August 2024
  • dictionary. Can may refer to: Aluminum can Drink can Oil can Steel and tin cans Trash can Petrol can Can (band), West Germany, 1968 Can (album), 1979 Can (South...
    702 bytes (111 words) - 09:00, 13 July 2024
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    found in their car. A petrol station could be shut down if it sold red petrol to a private car driver. June: The basic petrol ration was restored, but...
    56 KB (6,062 words) - 00:33, 29 June 2024
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    Gloucesters put eight bridges across, consisting of duckboards resting on petrol-tin rafts. They then cut the enemy wire before the infantry attacked at dawn...
    80 KB (11,055 words) - 11:58, 9 July 2023
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    Glosters, while the rest of the brigade was ferried across the canal on petrol-tin rafts. By 12.45 the Germans were in full retreat, leaving behind many...
    79 KB (10,575 words) - 22:47, 4 April 2024
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    discarded petrol and oil tins filled with sand for the building walls. This led to the island being nicknamed the Tin-Can Island or Petrol Tin Island. From...
    17 KB (1,927 words) - 02:41, 25 October 2023
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    peanuts, crayon and advertisement-oriented lithograph tins. Sometimes, supermarkets and petrol companies have used cans as ways to advertise; these types...
    7 KB (859 words) - 14:34, 14 April 2024
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    or a biscuit tin. The sides of the top half would have some holes pierced in it, and the bottom half would be filled with sand. Petrol would be stirred...
    5 KB (465 words) - 07:20, 27 July 2024
  • The brigade prepared thoroughly for this amphibious operation, with petrol-tin rafts, collapsible boats, 'mud mats', lifelines and scaling ladders, together...
    28 KB (3,592 words) - 04:27, 18 July 2024
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    www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk. "BBC – WW2 People's War – Masirah (Petrol Tin Island)". Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Hawker Siddeley HS-748...
    39 KB (3,667 words) - 19:40, 27 July 2024
  • 37 lightweight petrol, later diesel,-powered railcars, built 1923– ; in service with New South Wales railways from 1923 to 1985. The Tin Hare Gazette is...
    3 KB (361 words) - 14:49, 8 April 2024
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    invisible from the air and so 2,000 tons of petrol were thus stored. Over 100,000 four-gallon petrol tins were stacked in the 100 stone-faced slit trenches...
    27 KB (3,457 words) - 23:20, 27 March 2024
  • Force in North Africa, he created makeshift tracks in the desert with petrol tins as crash barriers and organised racing with dispatch riders. This led...
    4 KB (301 words) - 23:27, 30 January 2024
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    distinct ‘thrust lines’, the diamonds were retrieved and replaced by petrol tins, two high, marked with the fernleaf emblem. Consequently, "for every...
    26 KB (3,549 words) - 10:37, 27 April 2024
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    the petrol engines comply with the Euro 5 norm and the diesel engines have CO2 emissions of 99 g/km or lower. In addition to the four cylinder petrol engines...
    51 KB (4,307 words) - 03:48, 7 August 2024
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