Morris C8

[Mike K]

The engine is normally finished in a medium Brunswick green , that's for the 6 cyl. version anyway . The stationary engine guys use a similar green . http://mmoc.org.uk/mbimage.php?src=1359987041_17022


Regarding the brass data plates, I have new repros that were done in the UK somewhere. R. Ballard kindly sent me a few , the larger MCC one with the engine number , chassis number and axle/gearbox details and the smaller ubiquitous one with the contract number , this smaller one seems to be used on most WW2 British vehicles.

[Jonathan Moore]

I have contacted dataplates4u they cant remember making any in the past.

I think paint colour is partly down to personal choice and a subject that a lot of people can't agree on. I assume that someone, somewhere has documented evidence, that at that time in history, those engines were painted that colour, or could it be that there is just some circumstantial evidence or maybe someone just picked a colour and everyone else copied it. Personally I have gone for a evidence based approach to the problem. As far as I can tell, my engine had been painted twice, both times when the engine was separate from the rest of the vehicle. There was no evidence of over spray and components hadn't been sprayed as one block but as separate pieces, which would seem strange, as most military rebuilds that I have seen are sprayed one colour and as one large component. The top coat of green was slightly darker than the current body colour but not much and I would assume that this was the rebuild colour of 1952. The base colour was very near to the current body colour which I assume was the original colour and that is roughly what it is painted now. What I do find strange is that the head had no evidence of any paint, the water pump was green, the water outlet on the top of the cylinder head, a separate component, was green, the oil filter assembly was green but the head, rust colour, even under items mounted to it, such as the oil filter housing, there was no evidence of paint. This makes me wonder, was the head painted at all or just left as cast iron colour, maybe as a paint saving exercise.

Anyway I like it, so that's all that matters.



Jon

[Mike K]

Of those engine bay pics, the CS8 Finished in the light stone/black , with the 303 rifle , I reckon is closest to the correct engine colour. My morris wrecks here have remnants of that green on gearboxes and the engines