Hi Phil,

My boxed set of Austin colour cards was produced by Belco for 1936 and is in excellent condition. When I was respraying my Box saloon, I checked the Westminster green card against original paint behind the patents plate and it was a perfect match, so they must have produced them accurately.
My father was an apprentice paint sprayer at Marshall's of Cambridge in the early 1950's, they were our local Austin agents and he saved the cards when all the pre war stock was being disposed of.
Anyone is welcome to come and look at them, but I will not lend them as I did one once and of course never got it back.
I think posting photos of them would be pointless for colour matching purposes. You need to see the things in the flesh or paint or card...

Location: Stretham, Ely

I've used Jawel Paints Ltd (Birmingham and Wolverhampton) for the last three cellulose resprays that I've done. They reckon to have the correct mixes for all Austin colours from at least 1930 onwards and perhaps earlier.

Location: Herefordshire, with an "E", not a "T"!

Hi Phil,

Once completed will the information gathered by the Austin 10 club be made available to the wider Austin community. Could this together with the information available within the Austin Seven Clubs Association archive, pertaining specifically to the Seven range be made available on the web site.

Location: Auckland NZ

Hello Ian,

Available? I certainly hope so. The work started by A10DC has been helped by our recent Sevens contribution and hopefully will use the best available knowledge of 2016.

Its a meticulous task and one I would not try alone so the more info A10DC gather the better. Lance Sheldrick said he had a 30s set-Lance could you confer with Tony to see if its a duplicate or can add to their knowledge.

Phil.

Location: Market harborough

Thanks Martin - I've contacted them to see if they have a record for Atlantic Green.

I've been in touch with Phil and some archivists which has been very useful - but still there is nothing which matches the hue of the Austin literature when photoshop sampled to compare digitally.

Can anyone remember seeing any sort of 30's Austin (10/4 or 12/6 Tourer perhaps), in such a hue? Would be good to trace a car...

My 1937 Opal is a slightly bluey green and I should like to know what the definitive colour is, as described by Austins. The car is very original and I don't have any plan to respray despite grey undercoat showing in places (plus bare metal showing in places on the bonnet top).
Would a colour phot on this forum be helpful?

Charles

Location: Norfolk

Lance and others

Are the 30s Belco swatch cards now photo-archived of the same format as these (later) ones pictured in the link below? i.e. is the cover sheet of the same sort of text/form?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192150364793?euid=24b3590b900f45d38de4014774a8527b&bu=43055870992&cp=1&sojTags=bu=bu

Does anyone have any leads to anyone who might actually have the fabled early swatch of 60-odd colours? As it is remembered, surely it must have existed...

No - the paint cards you can see at

http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/paints-and-colours/

are quite different. They are about the size of a playing card and come in a box. The information that relates to each card is printed on the back of them (which has also been imaged and published on the web site).

Location: Lubenham

so was there something written on the box too, though? Is that digitised somewhere?

That is the key to finding something potentially 'unknown' through something like ebay... if the 1932 ones ever turn up...which they will in time.

I have an image somewhere, but can't find it just at the moment. I think it says something like 'Range of Belco colours for the Austin Car Company' - or something like that. Whatever it is, it's fairly obvious..

Ah, we published an image in the Archive Project Newsletter No. 2 which I think you should be able to see here..

http://us13.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e68574074b7b18affb3cb77b8&id=5bc54e04af&e=d79462b818

Location: Lubenham

that is really interesting to see their physical form - and the box - thankyou.