Welfare Vehicles

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

Thanks Hanno, that colour image explains a lot. Odd colours though.....desert tan with navy grey???

IIRC, the colours were blue camouflage over a cream base colour. Some pictures show them without camouflage (including a Bassett-Lowke 1:8 scale model in the Science Museum).

In the HMVF topic Ted Angus mentions that post-war the new flying squad vehicles were just plain blue.

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