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The circular storage tank (bottom portion?) with skeletal like the frame extending upward - just to the left of the crane.

What is it?

I see them in many old films (lots of black & white Japanese silent (and sound) Ozu films) This pic is from a 2017 London documentary.

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It’s a storage tank, for air. In case pressure gets too low. Sometimes used to maintain pressure in footballs.

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It’s a storage tank, for air. In case pressure gets too low.

What is the frame above it for? Must be an overseas thing. I don't think I've seen them in U.S. locales.

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Those are gas holders/gasometers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oval_Gasholders

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Those are gas holders/gasometers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oval_Gasholders

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Yup

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Natural Gas holding tanks.

http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html

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It’s a storage tank, for air. In case pressure gets too low. Sometimes used to maintain pressure in footballs.

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I've also seen big storage tanks that the sides were rigid and the top floated up down as needed.

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I've also seen big storage tanks that the sides were rigid and the top floated up down as needed.

Most crude oil storage tanks have a floating roof design.

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Natural Gas holding tanks.

http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html

awesome link there.

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I've also seen big storage tanks that the sides were rigid and the top floated up down as needed.
Most crude oil storage tanks have a floating roof design.

Thanks. Tank moves up and down the frame depending on capacity.

Found an Ozu film with one in the background.

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Natural Gas holding tanks.

http://americanfilmnoir.com/page21.html

Yep. In the 1940s and 1950s I saw lots of them in Detroit, Michigan.

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There is one along hwy 40 in St. Louis.

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was reading the older ones held coal gas. present day they hold natural gas.

gas holder, or gasometer

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there were a few off of 95 in Richmond,

not sure if any are still there,

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