question WW2 Oxygen/Acetylene Bottle colours?

[Jessie The Jeep]

Modern bottle colours are maroon for the acetylene, and white shoulder for the oxygen. Was this the same in WW2 or were colours different in wartime?

[ted angus]

Glad your over the flu; that is a good question certainly hydrogen cylinders on the balloon units became toned down with an earthy type colour possibly KG3 and later SCC2 and coloured bands of red and silver remained along with stencilling to ID contents. RAF Fire trucks that had CO2 cylinders mounted on the sides seem to have similar treatment. I think finding pictures of British mobile workshops might show up different tones. Is this info for your QM project never seen cylinders in any pictures I have come accross

 

TED

[Jessie The Jeep]

Reason I'm asking is dad likes water colour painting, and he's painting some of his childhood memories from during the war. The one he's on with at present is a man cutting down the iron railings with a gas torch, then he started wondering what the bottle colours should actually be!

[ted angus]

I have some old workshop tech books I am sure they were colour code pre war if that is the case then I doubt civvy bottles would have been very likely to have remained in those colours.