Paint schemes and 77 or 75?
It could be that this vehicle received a replacement rear axle with 75 on it as in most parts of the NW European front, there were Army scrap yards that recovered useful bits from damaged vehicles. In my opinion this is more likely than the front end of the vehicle being changed and 75 being the existing unit
As for the colour originally your vehicle might have received a paint scheme of SCC.2 Brown (or the Canadian equivalent). Other vehicle types painted SCC.2 were camouflaged with Black or Dark Brown over the SCC.2. Ambulances don't seem to have been camouflaged very often. This scheme ended in September 1943, probably just after your HUA was built!
The new scheme was British SC.15 Olive Drab which was used as the new colour from the factory, and when repaired older vehicles were repainted in SC.15 especially post D-Day in 1944-45. So your vehicle may have green paint for this reason. Are the Stars painted over Brown or the Green?
I hope this helps
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Larry Hayward
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