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Originally Posted by Keith Webb
So Alan has posted my pics elsewhere? Fair enough - it's his vehicle.  |
No pics have been posted anywhere else. I am the person who posted the original request on AULRO on behalf of the owner of the vehicle. I am the owner of a Landrover FC101 and know little of WW2 vehicles.
The AWM said
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"The RAAF vehicle colour scheme during WW2 was a derivation of the Army camouflage scheme, actually first produced/concocted by the boffins from Depart of Home Security in late 1941. Army vehicle depots routinely camouflaged RAAF vehicles at the beginning of 1942, before the RAAF got their act into gear to do it themselves. RAAF vehicles in forward areas were either camo painted or left green overall. Up to the end of 1941 the RAAF did not operate Blitz trucks: they began receiving them during 1942.
The blue colour was the RAAF’s post-war/1945 onwards colour, a dark blue for staff cars, etc, and a lighter RAAF Blue for trucks, lorries etc (except airfield vehs, which were yellow overall). Undersides of mudguards were often black, as per instructions.
The other question, of course, is what configuration the Blitz is in: ie door type, hatch type etc. Is the RAAF registration number visible? All this info will provide a better clue to the correct colour scheme, and indeed if the Blitz is actually ‘wartime’, as RAAF took delivery of new Blitz trucks right up to the end of 1945, well after the war had technically finished.
RAAF painting directions for vehicles are difficult to find. They are buried somewhere in a small mountain of RAAF files in the National Archives."
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Thanks for all the comments and information - it has been very instructive.
Garry
Canberra