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Hi all,
I'm going to "bump" this to see if one of our really knowledgeable historians can solve this puzzle.
Thanks,
Stephen
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Location: Sherwood Forest
Car type: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
First of all, I'm not convinced this was a 'Factory service van'; I cannot envisage a situation where the Austin Motor Company would have used such a vehicle, and the original print was not an Austin production. It could just as easily have been an enterprising local dealer or service organisation. As for colour, there's virtually no way of knowing due to the characteristics of the pre-panchromatic film. I think I can safely say it was not blue, or a shade of a colour containing blue (green or purple) as blue was the only colour in the spectrum to react on the film and create a light tone on the print. It could be a red shade, but it could just as easily be, for instance, bright yellow with dark blue lettering!
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Car type: 35 austin seven pearl
brings up a question I've had for some time: is there a listing, or production cards that show the original colors of Austins (e.g. I have one for my '58 Rolls)? Steve
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Is there any resource within the archive or elswhere that matches the original colours to modern paint colours/codes?
If not, i'm sure it would be very helpful to all - if we could pull together a list of colours with contributions from owners of very close matches.
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Adam Brown at Craftmaster paints has had access to the swatches and can supply matched paints...
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Thank you for this, but probably not so handy to me as I am in Northern Ireland.
I was looking for colour codes that can be used with any paint supplier, at the moment I am particularly interested in the racing Ulster orange/red. (if there was a standardised colour for this).
Sorry if we are getting a bit off track with this.
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Location: Salop
Car type: '28 GE Cup. '28 AD Chummy '30 RL Saloon. '34 RP Saloon. Too Many toys!
Mikes post is spot on. For reference, the tractor would have been blue.
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