Originally Posted by
4bee
The Light Green Paint was "supposedly( ?) war Surplus left over from the internal colour scheme of bombers & Spitfires etc. One wonders how true that little story is? Certainly the inside of the Scampton UK Gate Guardian Lancaster (now located elsewhere these days) that I was fortunately "allowed" to inspect, was that colour.
Arthur Goddard in the video "They Found our Engineer" seems to think it was from the Rover car colour range.
For a long time the 'story' was that the aluminium used was left over from aircraft production, Arthur claims it wasn't. As he was there at the time he possibly has a better idea than most.....
Steel was in short supply after the war so that certainly drove the choice of aluminium rather than steel.
Colin
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