Thanks for responding, but I do share your doubt about the reliability of the caption. I have seen pictures of the prototype that could be interpreted to be blue and silver, but all the pictures I’ve seen of the DH 53s at Lympne show translucent flying surfaces that I think must have been clear doped. Also, it seems pretty clear that the fuselage had two colors, not one.

Maybe there is no record of how they were painted. Too bad there isn’t some nice doggerel like the one about the Gloster Gannett…

Engine feeling very blue,
Fuselage same color too.

Jim