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Imperial Barrel

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Reference (that started this stub): The other technology created for the eventual breakout of Normandy was PLUTO (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean), which was developed by Arthur Hartley, chief engineer of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The goal was to lay a pipeline and pump the necessary fuel to keep the tanks and trucks moving, and while it has remained a great feat of military engineering the performance of PLUTO was disappointing. It only carried about 150 imperial barrels of gasoline per day – a fraction of what the Allied war effort required. from

1 imperial barrels = 43.2341973 US liquid gallons

Compares to the world standard:

42 gallon Oil Barrel

Long before England’s King Richard III defined the wine puncheon as a cask holding 84 gallons and a tierce as holding 42 gallons, watertight casks of many sizes were crafted by “tight” coopers.

A powerful guild, the Worshipful Company of Coopers, prescribed the manner of construction. Lesser skilled craftsmen (known as slack coopers) made casks, barrels, and pails for dry goods. Practical experience and custom made the 42-gallon watertight tierce a standard container for shipping everything from eel, salmon, herring, molasses, soap, butter, wine, and whale oil. The 42-gallon barrel became a familiar 19th century container.

Then came Edwin L. Drake’s 1859 oil discovery at Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first commercial U.S. oil well. The petroleum exploration and production boom that followed it consumed wooden tierces, whiskey barrels, casks and barrels of all sizes. 42-gallon oil barrel

A guild, the Worshipful Company of Coopers, prescribed the manner of construction for a watertight barrel. Lesser skilled craftsmen – slack coopers -made casks and pails for dry goods.

When filled with crude oil instead of fish or other commodities, a 42-gallon tierce weighed more than 300 pounds – about as much as a man could reasonably wrestle. Twenty would fit on a typical barge or railroad flatcar. Bigger casks were unmanageable and smaller were less profitable. Why a 42-gallon Oil Barrel?

Long before England’s King Richard III defined the wine puncheon as a cask holding 84 gallons and a tierce as holding 42 gallons, watertight casks of many sizes were crafted by “tight” coopers.

A powerful guild, the Worshipful Company of Coopers, prescribed the manner of construction. Lesser skilled craftsmen (known as slack coopers) made casks, barrels, and pails for dry goods. Practical experience and custom made the 42-gallon watertight tierce a standard container for shipping everything from eel, salmon, herring, molasses, soap, butter, wine, and whale oil. The 42-gallon barrel became a familiar 19th century container.

Then came Edwin L. Drake’s 1859 oil discovery at Titusville, Pennsylvania, the first commercial U.S. oil well. The petroleum exploration and production boom that followed it consumed wooden tierces, whiskey barrels, casks and barrels of all sizes. 42-gallon oil barrel

A guild, the Worshipful Company of Coopers, prescribed the manner of construction for a watertight barrel. Lesser skilled craftsmen – slack coopers -made casks and pails for dry goods.

When filled with crude oil instead of fish or other commodities, a 42-gallon tierce weighed more than 300 pounds – about as much as a man could reasonably wrestle. Twenty would fit on a typical barge or railroad flatcar. Bigger casks were unmanageable and smaller were less profitable.