Factory colours

[Mark Mackenzie]

In Nth Africa the colours given in orders were:

1936 - 1938: Light Sand with Dark Sand disruptive pattern.

1938 - Nov 1940: Middle Stone with Dark Sand disruptive pattern.

Nov 1940 - Dec 1941: "Caunter" tri-colour stripped pattern of Light Stone, Silver Grey and Slate.

Dec 1941 - Oct 1942: Light Stone only without a pattern (an exception being black paint used with canvas for disguising tanks as trucks the so called 'Sunshields').

Oct 1942 onwards: Desert pink with Dark Green disruptive pattern.

Outside of Nth Africa, alternative colours were in use, eg Sudan with Light Stone and Light Purple Brown and Palestine with Light Stone and Dark Green.