It may well be that the answer to the white/silver internal paint issue with the Oz army is as simple as the fact that the army carried basic colours eg, black, white, green (& perhaps brown
and yellow).
Silver would not have been something I would have
expected to see outside of base workshop if there even.
US vehicles were painted white internally.
Much easier to just use existing paint supplies and paint
the inside of all armoured vehicles white, including English sourced ones when they needed sprucing up.
Post war, with depot level rebuilds (eg Ferret) silver/aluminium
paint was re-applied.
Vehicles that appear to have been painted internally by the
crew (easy to tell, they were too lazy or in too much of a hurry
to unbolt anything including the radio mounts, so they just
painted as far as they could reach!) were done in white or
sea foam green (M113 interior colour).
Regards
Doug
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