Interesting tidbit of Chrysler history

[Car #4]

I picked up a couple cans today for my oil can collection. One of them was Gum and Sludge Remover. It had a paper label over the original printed can. The differences in labelling was the paper label had the contents in both imperial and metric, it had a danger warning in the front and the front of the label had both French and English. The can just had French on the back. My guess is that Chrysler Canada had to relabel some product to meet the current labelling requirements of the day. If anyone has more information on this I’d love to hear it.

 

[slimt]

You remove that french crap? Good.

 

[Photon440]

I'd guess it's at least 30 years old, going by the size; it's the big imperial quart, or 1.14 litres, after that they went to a straight 1 Litre size, nowadays everything's even smaller at the little American quart size, just 946 ml.

 

[Car #4]

It's more likely around 45 years old. Bar codes came in in the mid 70s and there's no bar code on it.

 

[Photon440]

Bar codes were invented in 1951 but you're right, it could be from the 1970s. Hey, can you scan it with a phone app?

 

[zyzzyx]

I like the "Jolly Roger" on the label. Must be some strong stuff!

 

[Car #4]

Bar codes were invented in 1951 but you're right, it could be from the 1970s. Hey, can you scan it with a phone app?

Sorry, I mistyped that. There's no bar code. The first product sold using a barcode scanner was a pack of Wrigley's gum in Troy, Ohio in 1974.