Protec Khaki Green No.3

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #1 15-11-11, 05:30

Hi all - let the confusion disappear. I attended the Adelaide factory today after learning my main contact, Andy, had left taking with him valuable customer information. Hence the confusion in recent times trying to access this paint. Anyway it is all sorted out.

If you need this paint contact Protec on 08 8447 6311 and ask for David King who is the colour matcher/mixer. Quote the colour name of Satin Khaki Green No.3 T/S and my name, Bob Moseley. The base paint is Protec Equipment Enamel 304. It takes about a week from order due to the satin process. They accept credit card over the telephone and will deliver to their interstate stores.

Bear in mind this is my interpretation of the colour, based on my 2001 restoration of a Bren Gun Carrier where I found a patch of this colour in a sun and weather unexposed area.

If you have any problems with Protec, contact me and I will sort it out.

Bob

Keith Webb · #2 15-11-11, 10:12

Thank you Bob as ambassador for the Khaki movement.

Slava · #3 09-01-12, 19:35

Did this "Nr 3" use on English production vehicles only?
How about Americans?
Especially Macks?

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #4 10-01-12, 11:43

Hi Slava - this was the colour used in Australia in the early 1940s before variations of Olive Drab came into vogue. Most American trucks I have seen were a deep bronze green.

Bob

Slava · #5 10-01-12, 16:03

Hi Bob!

I had my question not quite by chance.
I met a note in a book about military Mack trucks that model LMSW of 1941-42 was painted at factory British Khaki No.3.
It was stranged me because all another trucks in the book described as Olive Drab or Coronado Tan.

Mike Cecil · #6 11-01-12, 04:08

Colour depended on the contract. Mack trucks supplied under British purchasing commission (BPC) contracts were painted in Brit standard camouflage green, while those for US contracts were completed in US Deep Olive Drab.

Upon arrival in Australia (Australia recd Lend Lease vehicles by 'bidding' against supply contracts placed by the BPC, who decided who got what of the available vehicles), they were painted overall at the time of their assembly by the Australian assembly contractor. The Australian Govt issued a Contract Demand for assembly of CKD vehicles that included a paint specification. The paint spec for those assembled in Oz was invariably Khaki Green No.3 as the base colour, of which there were two 'shades' during the course of the war. Specs also included a disruptive colour if required for a particular vehicle type.

Mike C