Post War Canadian Army Paint

[David Dunlop]

Hi Rob.

I’m curious just how extensively that particular paint was used. I referenced the sigs equipment merely because it came to mind quickly (an accomplishment in its own right these days) as being where I have most commonly encountered it.

No idea if it was intended for use on vehicles, or larger equipment, but now that I think of it, it was probably on a lot of Bren Gun boxes and other items I have run across over the years. Seems kind of like it was intended to ‘standardize’ a lot of equipment postwar into a common appearance for some reason.

David

[rob love]

Or, and this is far more likely, it was the colour of paint made available from the supply depots, so therefore was the paint that was in the paint lockers that the troops could access. Most likely by the 1960s the WW2 paints were gone from the locker and the system.