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nightjar nightjar@insert my surname here.uk.com wrote:
My guess is that it was chosen to minimise material waste when making
the cans. Tennants appear to have been making 440ml cans as early as
1955, when they were made as traditional tin cans - a tube of tinplated
steel for the body with circular ends joined to it by rolling the
edges. Allowing for the edge rolls, the height of a can would suggest
it was originally made from a 6 inch wide roll of tinplate, while the
ends would be about the right size to have been punched out of a 3 inch
wide roll.

Nice bit of lateral thinking, Colin. ;-)

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