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War-time Packaging
War-time Packaging
One of the
challenges created by the Second World War was the creation of new
product containers using a minimum
of metal . A good example is this very rare
composite type quart used
for packaging motor oil . Basically a cardboard like
material , it used metal tops
and bottoms and carried a paper label . Very few of
these seemed to have survived
and when they did , oil soaked labels are the norm.
The photo above compares
the shorter and wider composite quart , to a standard
imperial metal quart , on the
right .
I have two of the Boy and Slate
composite quarts and was fortunate enough to
be granted permission to share this photo of the "White
Rose" quart courtesy of
the Reynolds Museum of Wetaskiwin , Alberta.
Glass containers of various size, shape and
colour proved to be a readily
available substitute in the quest to conserve precious
metal.