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Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons, 10 litres=2.20 gallons, 25 litres=5.50 gallons, 50 litres=11.00 gallons, 75 litres=16.50 gallons, 1 gallon=4.(...)
Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons, 10 litres=2.20 gallons, 25 litres=5.50 gallons, 50 litres=11.00 gallons, 75 litres=16.50 gallons, 1 gallon=4.(...)

Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons, 10 litres=2.20 gallons, 25 litres=5.50 gallons, 50 litres=11.00 gallons, 75 litres=16.50 gallons, 1 gallon=4.(...)

Date4/9/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons; 10 litres=2.20 gallons; 25 litres=5.50 gallons; 50 litres=11.00 gallons; 75 litres=16.50 gallons; 1 gallon=4.55 litres; 5 gallons=22.73 litres; 10 gallons=45.46 litres; 15 gallons=69.19 litres; Your dollar buys the same amount of gasoline whether it is measured in litres or in gallons.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0009493F
Subcompact Sedan: American Motors Canada president Maurice Fertey unveiled its new Alliance yesterday. It boasts the best fuel economy of any gasoline-fueled car built in North America - 4.5 litres per 100 kilometres, or 62 miles per gallon, on the highwa
Subcompact Sedan: American Motors Canada president Maurice Fertey unveiled its new Alliance yesterday. It boasts the best fuel economy of any gasoline-fueled car built in North America - 4.5 litres per 100 kilometres, or 62 miles per gallon, on the highwa
9/8/1982
Metric protests: An anti-metric protester's sign puts a finger on the problem at old city hall yesterday when two gas station owners appeared charged with selling gasoline in gallons
Metric protests: An anti-metric protester's sign puts a finger on the problem at old city hall yesterday when two gas station owners appeared charged with selling gasoline in gallons
1/25/1985
Why is this man smiling? You might be smiling, too, if you were RCMP Constable Carl Broughton and holding a gallon of moonshine, part of 35 gallons of(...)
Why is this man smiling? You might be smiling, too, if you were RCMP Constable Carl Broughton and holding a gallon of moonshine, part of 35 gallons of(...)
11/28/1983
Warming Up! We don't know how many gallons Howard Byrne's hat will hold but the Ticat fan from Newfoundland has it all over any Galgary 10-galloner, B(...)
Warming Up! We don't know how many gallons Howard Byrne's hat will hold but the Ticat fan from Newfoundland has it all over any Galgary 10-galloner, B(...)
11/21/1980
[Form] North West Territories liquor permit : within [one] month from date [H.P. Joyner] ... is permitted to take into the North West Territories [thirty-two (32) gallons beer] ...
[Form] North West Territories liquor permit : within [one] month from date [H.P. Joyner] ... is permitted to take into the North West Territories [thirty-two (32) gallons beer] ...
1887
Roland Krause of Atomic Energy of Canada, in Mississuga, holds a model of a uranium bundle that cost $700 and, when placed in a nuclear reactor, produces as much energy as 100,000 gallons of oil
Roland Krause of Atomic Energy of Canada, in Mississuga, holds a model of a uranium bundle that cost $700 and, when placed in a nuclear reactor, produces as much energy as 100,000 gallons of oil
11/27/1973
Jack Halpert: Gas bar owner still fighting to sell in gallons
Jack Halpert: Gas bar owner still fighting to sell in gallons
11/1/1983
XC-99 . . . 400 Men . . . 21,116 Gallons of Gasoline. Washington, Feb. 3 - The air force admitted today that while it has bought the world's largest l(...)
XC-99 . . . 400 Men . . . 21,116 Gallons of Gasoline. Washington, Feb. 3 - The air force admitted today that while it has bought the world's largest l(...)
2/3/1948
Two inches of rain-5 billion gallons, and almost the equivalent of a normal rainfall for all of May-fell on Metro last night, flooding an underpass on(...)
Two inches of rain-5 billion gallons, and almost the equivalent of a normal rainfall for all of May-fell on Metro last night, flooding an underpass on(...)
5/16/1974
In case of accident, beware tidal wave! TTC employee pours 13 gallons of water into plastic safety bumber fitted on 30 new buses. Collision impact is (...)
In case of accident, beware tidal wave! TTC employee pours 13 gallons of water into plastic safety bumber fitted on 30 new buses. Collision impact is (...)
5/14/1969
Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
4/9/1975
Gallon gas devotees
Gallon gas devotees
1/15/1983