It would appear that the band was sometimes a lighter colour than the body. Mills has on page 23 a 'factory picture' from 1933 and if you examine it closely it shows, particularly towards the back, a lighter colour for the band. Curiously if you look at the base of the pillar it seems to be black (or dark) but with a lighter coloured base. Using a magnifying glass I think you can see the transition on the pillar itself, suggesting it might have been painted to match the band when fixing. So might fine lines on later models have been painted on body colour applied at the time of fixing the pillar? Curiouser and curiouser!

Location: South Shropshire

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The "cog" in the photobucket instructions didn't do what I expected.

The photo is of two lines on my tourer waistline band.

I will try again.

I hate computing!

Simon

Location: On a hill in Wiltshire

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This is my second reply to the last post, the first having disappeared into the ether....

However, very interesting photo (stop yawning the rest of you!). The photo does not show clearly the lighter blue band, and as it is on the bonnet side (I think) it may not be original to the car. It would be informative to see what the windscreen pillar on the right looks like, and any fine lines discovered on the body tub would be a more convincing discovery. I have a spare tin of Nitromors if you want it.......

Location: South Shropshire

I never thought I would be discussing tiny details like this...

The light blue might be a figment of my imagination. There are traces of the red lines on the main body, it is just that the end of the bonnet is where you can see there are two of them, clearly. One the other side, at the front, the lines are brought together to a V shaped starting point.

Tomorrow it is supposed to be sunny, so I could do more pics of the very small traces I can see.

No matter how closely I look I can see no detail on the base of the pillars, there is no indication of lines under the paint.

But I will look again, and send a few pictures.

Cheers

Simon

Location: On a hill in Wiltshire