Hi, All,
When The Gentlemen From Hereford arrived at El Adem for one of their regular desert training exercises (in the early 1950’s) they produced, on one occasion, these dull pink Landrovers. The Crabfats said (obviosuly out of the hearing of said Gentlemen!!) “Oooh, Ducky. Do like the colour – do your handbags match?”!!!!
But seriously, one of these dull pink Landrovers “disappeared” when driven only a few hundred metres into the ‘bundoo’! The bog-standard ‘sand-painted’ RAF Landrovers were visible for miles!!!!!!!!!! They (The Hooligans) even brought Landrovers (and some Boffins) in 3 different shades of this dull pink so that the Boffins, and us Airmen who had to accompany The Hooligans on their nefarious exploits, could decide which shade was most effective, under what lighting conditions, and against what background? (Who would have been a National Service Airman Meteorologist at El Adem? My mates were in the NAAFI back at the ranch whilst I was playing Silly B*****s somewhere between Tobruk and Kufra with The Gentlemen!!!!!)
Who discovered this pink?
Why did Air Forces not use it on the upper surface(s) of parked a/c?
HTH
Resmoroh

wasn’t the pink discovered by accident when crashed aircraft were hard too see when paint had pealed back leaving primer which had dulled from red to pink ? maybe talking out of my hat but I seem to recall reading it somewhere?