Who remembers the grenades?

[mudgee hunter]

Found this grenade at Hargraves a while ago.
Can anyone remember these? And ball park year they came out?
Always wanted to find one.
Took ages to find one. Stoked it's not broken. erfect:

 

[mudgee hunter]

Ok, if I can find another one out there, and I think I can, I will send it to the first person who can accurately identify it.
Approx year and maker, and type of lid it came with.

 

[aussiefarmer]

Is it a fire extinguisher and i guess 1910ish

 

[mudgee hunter]

IF you had I fire in your throat!
Approx height is 150mm.
And I will mail this one. Happy to actually just find one after all the years searching.
I will put them down as bloody rare to collectors
Not worth much really, but hard to find

 

[mudgee hunter]

Hint...
Also called the "Barrel"...

 

[Moneybox]

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Found this grenade at Hargraves a while ago.
Can anyone remember these? And ball park year they came out?
Always wanted to find one.
Took ages to find one. Stoked it's not broken. erfect:

I think I found one....

 

[Moneybox]

?? :Y:

 

[mudgee hunter]

Yep, KB introduced them in about 1974/75.
Rumour had it the pull ring failed to seal properly and the beer was often flat.
Hence it was very short lived in design.
6 months...
Aussie icon if you ask me!
But it was the first of the "wide mouth " design concept!
That was appreciated by Aussie beer drinkers in the 70's!
PM sent to Moneybox for delivery etc.
erfect:
I remember my old man bitching about them being flat when I was four years old!
Wasn't happy! Prawning at the time.
Back when you could catch 4kg in an evening without effort

 

[Detecta]

They used to be called KB KEGS. My mate Stan used to buy them because they were cheap and no one else would drink his beer.

 

[mudgee hunter]

Do you remember thei KB 750ml steel can tinnies!
They where the perfect size for making ice bricks for the igloo drink containers!
Think you just had had to smack them a little to get them in!
Feeling old.... :lol:

 

[Sandta]

I think they did the silver bullet (Resches Pilsner) in those big tins too
Or was it Fosters ?

 

[Rockhunter62]

I think they did the silver bullet (Resches Pilsner) in those big tins too
Or was it Fosters ?

Can remember Fosters and Melbourne Bitter in the big cans. :Y:

Found this on google,

https://images.app.goo.gl/YtVdyfXk7Zn5dTyw8

Cheers

Doug

 

[Gilly47]

Kids Beer very sweet to the taste
:beer: :beer:

 

[Redfin]

I remember the 750ml cans

and the 500 ML Tube in the early 70's

 

[RM Outback]

I remember the 750ml cans

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/232/1585708990_capture1.jpg

and the 500 ML Tube in the early 70's

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/232/1585709025_capture.jpg

I remember the first game of VFL I went to in the late 70`s with a school mate and his Dad. His Dad and mate drank the 4 X 750 draught cans each by half time so we could have a better view for the 2nd half :lol: Fitzroy at home can't remember who they played or who won but I've never forgotten standing on those cans :Y: :beer:

 

[Greenhornet_au]

I think they did the silver bullet (Resches Pilsner) in those big tins too
Or was it Fosters ?

Can remember Fosters and Melbourne Bitter in the big cans. :Y:

Found this on google,

https://images.app.goo.gl/YtVdyfXk7Zn5dTyw8

Cheers

Doug

Yeah, I was sitting on the roof of my car at the foreshore in Perth drinking a 750 Fosters Can,
people were giving me funny looks.

Later found out it was illegal to drink in Public ! :8

Then plastic glassware in the pubs !

:lol: :lol: