80" grille badge colours?

[LWB123]

Hello,

I would like to know what colour(s) was on the grille badges of the 1950-53 series 1 80" Land Rovers that were sold here in Australia. A few restored vehicles that I have seen at shows and several in the UK mags have badges that have either red or yellow lettering on a mid or light green background. The vehicles themselves have been either light (e.g. HUE 166) or mid-green, whereas most of the old wrecks that I have seen minus the badges were in the dark Land Rover green that seemed to be common through the Series 1 range.

I have one for my wall collection that I want to restore to original colours and am not sure if it should be silver on black or yellow or red on green. It is presently a very faded yellow on green but this looks like it has been repainted a couple of times in the last 60 years.

Any help?

[Lotz-A-Landies]

A 1950 to early 1951 should be the cast aluminium badge and it should have a bronze green background and yellow lettering. 1951 to 1953 were pressed aluminium with a black background and silver (aluminium) lettering they also had Birmingham England (Not the Series 2/2a Solihul Warwickshire England type).

HUE 166 has Rover, light green (sage) background and Red lettering as did all the 1948 and early 1949.

Hope this helps.

[LWB123]

A 1950 to early 1951 should be the cast aluminium badge and it should have a bronze green background and yellow lettering. 1951 to 1953 were pressed aluminium with a black background and silver (aluminium) lettering they also had Birmingham England (Not the Series 2/2a Solihul Warwickshire England type).

HUE 166 has Rover, light green (sage) background and Red lettering as did all the 1948 and early 1949.

Hope this helps.

It is the cast aluminium badge without "Birmingham England" adjacent to the Land Rover logo. So it must be from a 1950-51 vehicle - I never saw that truck.

As noted, the Land Rover logo is painted yellow, but it is pretty faded and hard to tell what the original background green colour might have been.

My grandfather had an 80" S1 on the farm years ago and I seem to recall that it had the silver and black badges with the "Birmingham England" wording, as did a couple of wrecks I was looking over in a yard near Cooma - although these were almost bare aluminium now.

Cheers

[back_in]

Hi Diana
sound as if you may know
what was the number or approx date of the change from red to yellow lettering
cheers
Ian

[wrinklearthur]

A 1950 to early 1951 should be the cast aluminium badge and it should have a bronze green background and yellow lettering. 1951 to 1953 were pressed aluminium with a black background and silver (aluminium) lettering they also had Birmingham England (Not the Series 2/2a Solihul Warwickshire England type).

HUE 166 has Rover, light green (sage) background and Red lettering as did all the 1948 and early 1949.

Hope this helps.

I will ask Frank Sharp ( in Hobart ), tomorrow about this, as I believe the first badges were cast bronze.
Also will ask about the colours
Cheers Arthur

[justinc]

I will ask Frank Sharp ( in Hobart ), tomorrow about this, as I believe the first badges were cast bronze.
Also will ask about the colours
Cheers Arthur

...What are you doing still awake Arthur???!!!! People our age should be asleep well and truly by now:p
Sorry for the hijack peoples, resume normal programming....


JC

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I will ask Frank Sharp ( in Hobart ), tomorrow about this, as I believe the first badges were cast bronze.
Also will ask about the colours
Cheers ArthurArthur

I think you will find that the bronze ones were the badges for the pre-production vehicles, although a few may have escaped onto the production line. However in respect to this thread it's irrelevant as the question was about 1950 through 1953 models, which were by that time either cast or pressed aluminium.

Cheers
Diana

[dennisS1]

I dont think all 48s or early 49s had red lettering, yes sage background and red was used but so was yellow.
Dennis

[LWB123]

Hello again.

I have finally got around to securing a few photos of the badge in question - below.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1024.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1025.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1026.jpg

It is a bit hard to see what it is made of - looks like cast alloy and definitely quite heavy.

As noted in a previous post, I never saw the vehicle it came off.

Cheers

[juanpedro]

Hi, I have restored one and I think the colors could be them.

http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/4081/logopreproduccin.jpg

[digger]

Hello again.

I have finally got around to securing a few photos of the badge in question - below.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1024.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1025.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/04/1026.jpg

It is a bit hard to see what it is made of - looks like cast alloy and definitely quite heavy.

As noted in a previous post, I never saw the vehicle it came off.

Cheers

it looks to me as if no background colour... none seems 'trapped' in near letters or edges... possible it was just cast and raised letters coloured?

(I would expect those raised letters to have lost paint first..mainly)

[chazza]

Mine is the same as yours Digger, except that the background was bronze green. Perhaps yours has weathered off,

Cheers Charlie

[clubagreenie]

I have one of those somewhere and was certainly bronze, painted green/yelllow. Came from a vehicle in a paddock up north ways of Nyngan/Cobar.

[back_in]

Hi Digger
do you what a few
I have a collection
cheers
Ian

[digger]

Hi Digger
do you what a few
I have a collection
cheers
Ian

funny you should say that Ian, I have organised the thing to mount them on but dont have them....or suitable (80") front guards...or...etc etc!!!

when I get it back here Ill try and tee up to throw some dead stock bits on a bbq!