Aircooled VW South Africa

is this orthentic ????

Looks authentic to me, would look good on the back of my plaas bakkie !!!!!!

If you look at the screw on lid, it is.
Newer cans have a different lid.

That can pre dates the Second World war.

I have seen similar cans on some 1920 to 1930 American classics.

There normally was a dedicated oil can holder provided on one or both of the running boards.

Sufficient back-up oil was a necessity then; what with open valve train designs and total loss lubrication systems (screw in lubricator on the end of whatever shaft with the used oil dripping on the ground)

Those cans can be pre or post-war.

Pre-war cans are usually petrol (motor spirit) cans, while post-war are usually oil cans.

In the early days of motoring there were no filling stations. You bought fuel from the general dealer in wooden crates, each containing four two-gallon cans of fuel.

jmvv wrote: (screw in lubricator on the end of whatever shaft with the used oil dripping on the ground)

hmmm, the good old days...

My folks still have one of those. They used it to store the fuel for the lawnmower.