> On Tue, 21 May 96 Dave Tait asked:
> ...I think I would prefer a BRG or some shade of blue if it
> was available that year..
>
On Wed, 22 May 1996, Ross Vincente replied:
> ...The blues are (in order from lightest to
> darkest) Wedgewood Blue (26); French Blue (126); Pagent Blue
> (JAE); Sapphire Blue (76); Royal Blue (56) and Deflt Blue (136).
Thanks to a message last November from Thomas Schmid (as well as my own
dim memory), I can offer this:
Colors without code (pre 1960 ? ):
Monaco Blue, Powder Blue, Renoir Blue; also Cotswold
I-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--
I 16 I 26 I 36 I 46 I 56 I
I I I I I I
I Midnight I WedgewoodI Dark Blue I Renoir I Royal I
I-----------+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--
I 66 I 76 I 86 I 96 I 106 I 116/JAC I
I I Print I I I I I
I Valencia I Blue I Navy I Sapphire I Mallard I Ice I
+-----------+----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+--
I 126/JAA I 136/JAB I 146/JAE I JAG/JNA I
I I I I I
I French I Delft I Tahiti I Pageant I
> It isn't clear when each paint was available. It appears that the
> alphabetically coded paints were offered in later years in
> addition to most of the numerically coded paints, but I am not
> sure of this. Perhaps Andy Mace or somebody else has another
> source who can confirm this. Good luck.
I don't know for sure about 1978, but I think offerings would have been
limited mostly to the highest numbered or "letter-coded" paints.
Valencia (66) dates to the late 1960s; lower numbers go as far back as
the 1950s in a few cases, although the numbers were not used on Comm.
No. plates until circa. 1964.
--Andy
Andrew Mace
10/Herald/Vitesse (Sports 6) Consultant
Vintage Triumph Register
amace@unix2.nysed.gov
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