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Triumph TRW Colour

I am in the process of recommissioning a 1957 ex-Canadian Army TRW that has been stood for a number of years and, having traced a previous owner in Canada, I have discovered it was repainted about 20 odd years ago. The paintwork is now looking a bit tired and could do with freshening up. I have been trying to find out what the original colour was that the TRWs were painted when they left the factory so that I can match it, but so far no one can give me a definative answer, not even the Triumph Owners Club who hold the factory records. Does anyone here know what colour, with hopefully the colour codes/name, these motorcycles were painted when they left the factory during the Cold War period please?

Thanks, Dave.

email (option): dave.stapleton@me.com

Re: Triumph TRW Colour

Canadian models seem to have all been green (with gold lining)...I believe Land Rover Dark Bronze Green is the correct colour...
Some UK models were also painted in RAF Blue Grey and I remember seeing surplus NOS fork sets and other parts finished in that colour..Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

Re: Triumph TRW Colour

Didn't the Navy have some as well. I seem to remember a friend off mine had one in Navy colours back in the 70s.

Re: Triumph TRW Colour

Hi Ian

Deep Bronze Green is definitely too dark, I took my petrol tank, which has the original paint on the underside, along to a local classic Land Rover restoration specialist and compared it to a couple of Deep Bronze Green Land Rovers he had in, the tank looked very 'Olive' next to these vehicles.

Today I took it to an auto paint mixer specialist who had a very clever Spectrometer which they used to scan the tank, the result was 96.2% accurate for a certain paint colour however, he wouldn't tell me the resulting name or paint code as their policy is not to pass that information to private individuals to stop them buying paint elsewhere cheaper. All he would tell me was that it was a NATO military gloss colour, but not a Land Rover colour... !

email (option): dave.stapleton@me.com

Re: Triumph TRW Colour

There are about a dozen different Dark Bronze Greens. It's not quite as difficult to pin down as 'British Racing Green', but almost. If the supplier can more or less match it then why not use them ?

With lead now illegal, no modern representation of a 1940s or 1950s colour is ever going to truly replicate the original colour under all light conditions.

We do the best that we can, but we'll never achieve 100%

Re: Triumph TRW Colour

Here is the BS 381C colour chart. There is also Light and Mid Bronze Green.
https://www.orionpaints.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BS-381C-Color-Chart.pdf

Ron

email (option): ronpier@talk21.com

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