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The five-gallon bucket, also known as an 18-liter bucket or a 20-liter bucket, is a common bucket size in the United States and Canada, with a liquid capacity of 5 gallons (18.93L). History [ edit ]
A jerrycan or jerrican (also styled jerry can or jerri can) [1] is a fuel container made from pressed steel (and more recently, high density polyethylene). It was designed in Germany in the 1930s for military use to hold 20 litres (4.4 imp gal; 5.3 US gal) of fuel, and saw widespread use by both Germany and the Allies during the Second World War.
The can saw very little change since then, although better technology brought 20% reduction in the use of steel, and 50% - in the use of tin [7] (the modern cans are 99.5% steel). [ 9 ] Canned food in tin cans was already quite popular in various countries when technological advancements in the 1920s lowered the cost of the cans even further.
Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit; Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures; Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be ...
Steel drums used as shipping containers for chemicals and other liquids. A 200-litre drum (known as a 55-gallon drum in the United States and a 44-gallon drum in the United Kingdom and the rest of the world) is a cylindrical container with a nominal capacity of 200 litres (55 US or 44 imp gal). The exact capacity varies by manufacturer, purpose ...
Girl in a school uniform using a Veronica bucket. The Veronica bucket [1] is a mechanism for hand washing originating in Ghana which consists of a bucket of water with a tap fixed at the bottom, mounted at hand height, and a bowl underneath to collect waste water. The Veronica bucket was developed by Veronica Bekoe. The Veronica bucket serves ...
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian hardware and garden centre chain. [2] The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. [3] Bunnings was founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1886, by brothers Arthur and Robert Bunning, who had
An overfilled skip Flyover of 3D modeled satellite photos of a skip hire, Porthmadog, Wales A cantilever skip truck loads a skip. A skip (British English, Australian English, Hiberno-English and New Zealand English) (or skip bin) is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry called a skip truck.