Snoopy do you have an example of both the pre and post war logos? I am keen to track both down.
The post-war, as per Post No.1 above I do not, as I’m only focussed on 1934-’39.
The pre-war I do, on another PC currently in storage. Latter logos tended to get both the colours and the design wrong on restorations. The white is easy, and the dark blue hard to get wrong, but the ‘sky’ in the logo was actually almost Turquoise***, not just ordinary sky-blue. All the dark areas were the Dk. Blue, but the outer ring was actually gold-coloured. This, of course, doesn’t show in old black & white images – and there exist, to my knowledge, no colour images.
The waterslide-transfers were different for each Percival type, although the London Head Office address was the same for all, as was the rest of the design. They were marked either ‘Gull’, ‘Vega Gull’ et al, as appropriate.
This isn’t my personal opinion, but came from a pre-war member of the drawing-office staff at Percival’s many years ago who produced an annotated drawing.
*** I have a recollection that, unless one specified otherwise, the standard works-colours for Gulls & Vegas was Titanine Silver flying-surfaces, and a ‘blue’ fuz. (This ‘blue’ may well have been the same or very similar to that used in the Percival fin-logos pre-war.). Some of the 1930’s periodicals and sales literature showed coloured, printed imaged of this scheme (Look at the covers of ‘Flight’ and ‘The Aeroplane’ of that period.), and interestingly, it’s usually portrayed as a rather aquamarine-blue, even allowing for the vagaries of 1930’s colour-printing.
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