Thread: 49 S1 80"

Great that you are here on AuLRO however infrequently.

The colour question has always been something that I wanted a little clearer information.

Now what would be good if we could have the actual colours specified according to the BS industrial colour chart, so we can have the paints mixed/converted using a known standard.

Diana

Thanks for all your help all. Much appreciated

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Hi All
I have seen one of James Taylor's books when the change to black from silver.
But can not remember, I think it was about several 100 cars after mine, which is 8664189.
Diana you may be right, the dark green and the black chassis may have come about with the M.D. requirements.
cheers
ian

I know for a fact that NO 80" land rovers had a black painted chassis, it was either silver, sage green or bronze green though if you ordered a frie enging you got a red chassis. This practice continued till the end of the 86"107" run.

Hi,
Before making emphatic statements like

"I know for a fact that NO 80" land rovers had a black painted chassis, it was either silver, sage green or bronze green though if you ordered a frie enging you got a red chassis. This practice continued till the end of the 86"107" run."

it would be good to quote a source.

Here is a reference to Black replacement chassis and their fitment to British Army 80s" see Reply no 30

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Bob

Originally Posted by bobslandies

Hi,

Here is a reference to Black replacement chassis and their fitment to British Army 80s" see Reply no 30

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Bob

The link only works for members Bob. What does it say?

Cheers Charlie

Originally Posted by chazza

The link only works for members Bob. What does it say?

Cheers Charlie

Hi Charlie,
Here's an abridged compilation from a discussion on British Military 80" specifications and LRSOC members contributions.

From Reply #7
"I have a 1951 built 1952 model"

From Reply #30 – info on above vehicle from Military records:

“the basic specification for vehicals built under contract number 6/veh/7711 ,this is a truck 1/4 ton 4x4 general service rover mk2 and was supplied with mos (MOD?) brass data plate, rear seats and grab handles, hood with roll-up sides, trailor socket and dummy socket on rear crossmember o/s, trafficators, jerrycan holder behind front seats in rear body, spare wheel carrier on bonnet, pyrene fire extinguisher and bracket, bridge plate, wd number plates, jack and handle wheelbrace and starting handle .”

“details also state that the chassis was black now i found bronze green paint on the chassis, which is correct?”

There are a couple of typos in this quote that I have not corrected. The (MOD?) is my addition and may be wrong.

Reply #33

“The only black 80 chassis that I've ever seen was a replacement one.
The Army 80s were basically in the standard civvy colour scheme - green body & chassis, black axles, springs etc. As David says, the Army often repainted everything green. They also often completely stripped vehicles down before painting, so absolutely everything is green, even on normally unseen bits.”

If you go to the home page of the forum: Land Rover Series One Club
it's easy to register, you don't have to be a member of the Series One Club to use the forum.

Bob