Jeep colours

[Eric B]

Hello

The Canadian Jeeps followed the British marking standards, therefore the US markings and camo would not apply.

I noticed in the British Archive photos that many of the British jeeps in Italy were a camo pattern. As Canada obtained some of the jeeps from the British (as we traded new ones in the UK for them) we would have had some with the same camo style.

Some of the airborne jeeps at D-Day would have been camo as well, although a different style.

The earlier jeeps definetly had camo on them. After D-Day those that appear to have camo on them (from photos in the CDN Archives) were the CDN Contract MB's. The majority of the others that are one colour are the non CDN contracts.

As i indicated earlier that there were several camo patterns used by Canada and that there were variations of these as well.

Later issue jeeps remained the factory paint untill they needed to be painted. Then whatever paint that was on hand was used.

Thanks
Eric