A confounding thing about the quality of paint contentions....
Several here have put the view that the paint was of poor quality Tony for instance and Mike.
The original specification for the paint was always Alkyd. Dulux did not have any great claim to making Alkyd paint following a patent ruling in 1935 it was available for anyone to manufacture.
Berger , Taubmans , for instance.
As for its durability I point to the photographs of extant artifacts in this thread and wonder if the paint was so bad how come so much of it is still evident even to the extent of determining colour and pattern. some seventy years after application and after continuous exposure to the elements in most cases.
It would appear that the physical evidence would suggest a very high quality product
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