1941 Paint Formula - Dark Tarmac No 4.

[Mike Cecil]

Thanks, Tim, nice find: I wonder if this is one of the files Gina W has been paying to have copied, so that they will appear on Recordsearch as a downloadable pdf - an expensive process and we should all be very grateful to her for her efforts in making these available (I know I am!)

Interesting title, sounds more like an RAAF/aircraft colour - 'tarmac' being usually associated with an airfield - but it is an Army-generated file, and seems to refer to the British colours KG3 and Dark Tarmac No.4 as the combination used on military vehicles. I think this is referring to the 'mickey mouse' combination of black/green disruptive as used on British Army vehicles. As far as I'm aware, this was not a combination or pattern used on Aust military vehicles.

Gina will no doubt be interested in such comments as the 1941 letter stating that the formula for KG3 was 'long standing' at that time, further re-inforcing that KG3 pre-dated Aust KGJ by a considerable period.

Thoughts, please?

Mike