1925 paint

[TonyB]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can tell me what the paint is in the photo. I have scanned through the site because I feel sure it has been discussed before somewhere, but I couldn’t find anything. I noticed that several vehicles shown in the archives were painted this colour when found but not after restoration. Is it some preservative that vehicles are toshed over with or a proper military colour?

The vehicle is my Citroen Kegresse which probably came out of the Royal Artillery. The paint is brushed on over metal and wood, the part shown is a track pulley support arm.

Cheers, Tony

 

[fv1609]

Tony it looks very like Eau de Nil, I don't know about earlier but certainly post-WW2 zinc phosphate primer was in Eau de Nil.

[TonyB]

That would explain the look of the paint Clive, brilliant, thanks. Perhaps the vehicle was brushed over when it was removed from Aldershot. At least it wasn’t yellow primer. An Italian Kegresse was shown some years ago which had the same rusty green patina, eau de nile describes it exactly. I thought it might be a base colour for vehicles out of use. Now I’m wondering what colour a Royal Artillery line-laying vehicle might have been, perhaps the museums have some records on inter-war paint.

I’m just about to fit the track mechanism to the chassis but wanted to paint the components first, reduction gear casings and tension pulley system and supporting casing with new phosphor bronze bushes replacing the ruined bearings. It looks as if the weight carrying rollers were originally black. Then again, perhaps eau de nile would make a good over-all working colour.

Thanks again, I’ll get to work.