Re: SER1 FW: Re: Steering column colour

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I would assume that a factory standard sand colour would appeal to the army
of any country with a large proportion of beige sandy desert.  (Australia
has red sand in most if our deserts.)  The British and Commonwealth Armies
(including Australian Army) in North Africa during WWII all had sand
coloured vehicles and when the US landed during the "Torch" landings in
November 1942 they had green vehicles which stood out like big black targets
against the sandy deserts.

It would be a logical option for Rover tom have a second standard colour
after green if they wanted to attract foreign orders and from the British
Army which was still in the Middle East at the time.

Diana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Tollefson" <tollefson@xxxxxxx.xx>

I think it's re writing time since Bill at TLR has some more of these sand
coloured doortops. He got them from Blanchards in UK. I assume the factory
may have supplied "non standard" paint schemes for export orders in
sufficcient numbers.
When I bought my 101 in 1995 I saw a surplus 101 in factory sand colour, one
of the batch that went to Oman in the late 70's.
And here also , according to accepted wisdom, all 101's left the factory in
bronze green, Go figure!
Maybe some of the experts from the Series 1 Club want to elaborate a little
more?

Tom T.

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Diana Alan
Sent: October 16, 2004 10:48 AM
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Subject: Re: SER1 FW: Re: Steering column colour


Tom

You had better send those tops over to me they obviously come off my
vehicle!

As far as I can tell, yes my vehicle was originally a limestone colour.
Exactly which "limestone colour" is only a guess.

My vehicle was a CKD unit assembled by Annand and Thompson in Brisbane
Australia, they were the Queensland distributor for Land Rover in the 1950's
through to the 1970s.  Unfortunately in their rush to become a Nissan
distributor they discarded the Land Rover records.

The only other non-fire engine, 80" Land Rovers I have ever seen in non
standard colours is the 1948/1949 80" in the movie Windom's Way and that was
a battered up unit that could have been re-painted although it was only 7
years old at the time.

The assumption to date was that the vehicle was either a special order or
painted in the non standard colour for marketing purposes.  If your doortops
are also factory limestone we may have to re-write the history books.

Unfortunately I have had the bulkhead sand blasted and refinished so don't
have the evidence from that. However I still haven't completed work on the
rear tub and apart from a number of paint stripper coats plus the removal of
some gal fittings, it is still in a mainly untouched condition.  So you are
welcome to assist me with some Lard Rover archaeology, just pop over and
help me take off the rest of the gal cappings to see if they too have the
limestone colour underneath.  I will supply the beer and Bar-B-Que, we can
all have a merry time investigating and I'll get some more work done on my
project.




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