- Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:23 am
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British colours BS 381 C
The easiest way to get a colour for painting your companies bike in the fifties was to use the British Standards chart and then order the shade you liked, Thus the 250 Continentals GT's being Cherry red. I may be wrong but from memory, the earlier "RE" green was mid-brunswick green (Same as Lister Stationary engines).
You would be surprised at how much stuff came from the BS chart, old telephone exchange equiptment (631), 70's exchange equiptment (384). Cammo and general paint for the army, airforce, navy, even that terrible British rail blue from the 60's is in there (114). Government and civil service buildings were all BS 381C inside
As usual, being British, there was a strange twist to the colour chart and what was included. This has been a damn pain for people researching colours for years.
If the British standard colour WAS included in the chart, it would numbered as (example)
BS 381C Colour 631 Light Grey.
If the colour was not actually included , then it would just be
BS 631 Light Grey.
These excluded colours are known collectively as "Other BS colours" Their numbering always fits in with BS 381 C even if they are not included. It can also be hard to find a chart of them all.
If we were to list the BS 381C and the "BS other colours" in numerical order, it would go like this...
BS 410 Light Brown
BS 381 Colour 411 Middle Brown
BS 381 Colour 412 Dark Brown
BS 413 Nut Brown
BS 381 Colour 414 Golden Brown
BS 415 Imperial Brown
So you see what a pain it would be, if you only have the BS 381 C chart, without the BS other colours.
But after a lot of work, we have the "Scaley BS 381C and BS Other Colours Combined Chart."which after much research.contained all of the known extra colours, in a numerical order with colour patches to boot!
For the first time, it is possible to look down a single chart and hopefully find a match for your 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's stuff. (sometimes the colour not correct on all monitors or printers, but best I could do.)
Those of you who like telephone exchange stuff, notice that "384 Light straw" actually looks correct, where as countless other BS 381 C charts, it looks like tea with too little milk. This is because i used the correct "Munsell" system of luminance, chromaticity, hue values and all that to get the colour samples as near possible to correct.
click on the link below, it's the chart on the right side of the page.
Scaly's junk
British colours BS 381 C
The easiest way to get a colour for painting your companies bike in the fifties was to use the British Standards chart and then order the shade you liked, Thus the 250 Continentals GT's being Cherry red. I may be wrong but from memory, the earlier "RE" green was mid-brunswick green (Same as Lister Stationary engines).
You would be surprised at how much stuff came from the BS chart, old telephone exchange equiptment (631), 70's exchange equiptment (384). Cammo and general paint for the army, airforce, navy, even that terrible British rail blue from the 60's is in there (114). Government and civil service buildings were all BS 381C inside
As usual, being British, there was a strange twist to the colour chart and what was included. This has been a damn pain for people researching colours for years.
If the British standard colour WAS included in the chart, it would numbered as (example)
BS 381C Colour 631 Light Grey.
If the colour was not actually included , then it would just be
BS 631 Light Grey.
These excluded colours are known collectively as "Other BS colours" Their numbering always fits in with BS 381 C even if they are not included. It can also be hard to find a chart of them all.
If we were to list the BS 381C and the "BS other colours" in numerical order, it would go like this...
BS 410 Light Brown
BS 381 Colour 411 Middle Brown
BS 381 Colour 412 Dark Brown
BS 413 Nut Brown
BS 381 Colour 414 Golden Brown
BS 415 Imperial Brown
So you see what a pain it would be, if you only have the BS 381 C chart, without the BS other colours.
But after a lot of work, we have the "Scaley BS 381C and BS Other Colours Combined Chart."which after much research.contained all of the known extra colours, in a numerical order with colour patches to boot!
For the first time, it is possible to look down a single chart and hopefully find a match for your 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's stuff. (sometimes the colour not correct on all monitors or printers, but best I could do.)
Those of you who like telephone exchange stuff, notice that "384 Light straw" actually looks correct, where as countless other BS 381 C charts, it looks like tea with too little milk. This is because i used the correct "Munsell" system of luminance, chromaticity, hue values and all that to get the colour samples as near possible to correct.
click on the link below, it's the chart on the right side of the page.
Scaly's junk
REOC 15084
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