Ground equipment blue/grey paint BS number required.

Thanks for the information I have got a 4 litre can of paint bs 633 we are doing some other work and will be using
the traffic blue but we do have lots of good samples of that to get some made up.
Regards

Graham

Try Fascinating Finishes – I used their BS298 for my original RAF Jeep – [ATTACH=CONFIG]254871[/ATTACH] – went on well. I believe should be OD until postwar when RAF blue was mandated -TT

http://www.militaryvehiclepaint.co.uk/search_results.php?searchq=raf

If you’re not looking for the RAF Blue-Grey used on MT etc, then Dave is correct (post 7 above) and Traffic Blue is the colour you’re looking for, BS169. It doesn’t appear in the current BS381c lists but that BS number is your starting point. I couldn’t find anybody who could mix it locally so I resorted to getting a close match to an original unfaded sample on one of our aircraft recovery trolleys mixed by a paint supplier.

If you’ve got a good sample of the original a car body shop should be able to scan it and replicate it in an automotive paint which will be more durable if your equipment is kept outside.

Here you go, you can buy RAF Blue Grey

https://www.paintman.co.uk/product-category/coach-enamel/land-rover-stock-colours/landrover-paint-blues/

they even do aircraft colours including USA

https://www.paintman.co.uk/product-category/coach-enamel/military-colours/

We also supply the restoration industry with any known paint code colour.

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Fascinating 1958 reference to SCC1A Dark Brown to refinish tin helmets. SCCs were the wartime Standard Camouflage Colours used for everything from uniforms to buildings to vehicles

Hi there,

I have found in Sec 33A of AP1086 dated Jan 1958 reference to ground equipment paint described as Traffic Blue which is BSC169, please see attached picture. The Blue Grey for vehicles is BSC633

Hope that helps

Regards
Dave

[ATTACH=CONFIG]254813[/ATTACH]

From the limited info that I’ve managed to find it seems that Yellow roofs etc started to be introduced from the Summer of 1944.

Would they have been blue-grey or would they have been yellow for visibility reasons. The RAF were adding orangey-yellow to roofs and bonnets to vehicles used on the airfield even during the war. I seem to remember there was a yellow Beaverette or Morris LRC towing the control caravan in Night Bombers

Just painted a 1953 GPU and now doing some early 1950s maintenance steps.

What is it you need to paint? Wartime colours can get quite confusing. Pre-war/ Early war the common RAF Grey/Blue was used then Mid war onwards Army green was adopted then back to the normal Grey/Blue after the war until the early 1950’s when the horrible light blue colour became common on GSE.

I have found BS633 I presume this is the one.