Thread: 80" grille badge colours?

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

Originally Posted by 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.

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

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

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

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JC

Originally Posted by wrinklearthur

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

Arthur

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

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

Hello again.

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







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