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Works Van Colour - Steve Bryant - 12-08-2017
Apparently the factory had a service van in their company colour.
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Does anyone know what colour it was ? I thought I had read somewhere that it was Maroon, but no other details given such as wheel and wing colour and the colour of the "Austin " script.
Any help you can offer would be gratefully received.
Stephen
RE: Works Van Colour - Steve Bryant - 24-09-2019
Hi all,
I'm going to "bump" this to see if one of our really knowledgeable historians can solve this puzzle.
Thanks,
Stephen
RE: Works Van Colour - Mike Costigan - 24-09-2019
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!
RE: Works Van Colour - Hugh Barnes - 24-09-2019
Even with panchromatic, interpretation of colour in a black and white photo is subjective at the very least...
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RE: Works Van Colour - steve62008 - 24-09-2019
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
RE: Works Van Colour - Hugh Barnes - 24-09-2019
Not an exhaustive collection, I'm sure. I know earlier sets exist and would dearly love to track them down and add them to the resource..
http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/paints-and-colours/
RE: Works Van Colour - Belinni - 24-09-2019
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.
RE: Works Van Colour - Hugh Barnes - 24-09-2019
Adam Brown at Craftmaster paints has had access to the swatches and can supply matched paints...
RE: Works Van Colour - Belinni - 24-09-2019
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.
RE: Works Van Colour - Hedd_Jones - 24-09-2019
Mikes post is spot on. For reference, the tractor would have been blue.