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09-02-11, 15:24
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I've got a bit more info.
I collected a 1946 24 stud Flathead for my Loyd a couple of weeks ago and the seller also a had a freshly imported pre 1942 24 stud (from the USA)which I cleaned up to check the original colour in various places. It was a dark green. A few days later I went to see a very original 21 stud Dagenham lump, it was in a bad way, but on all engine parts it was a light grey. Some other bits I have picked up show a bright green colour. Richard Farrant posted a photo of a British Army rebuilt flathead (1952?) and this had the identical bright green finish. Perhaps we can err on the side of British 21 Stud wartime units being light grey and the US 24 stud ones being dark green. The Flathead engine shops in the USA sell 'ford dark green' off the shelf, so I imagine they have got it right for the 24 Stud. The bright green colour comes from the 1950s rebuilds...
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09-02-11, 18:17
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Apart from the ones that were blue....... 
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10-02-11, 05:52
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My Mk1 motor is silver gray .It has been in the carrier for years but could have been changed during the war . The Mk11 is silver gray .It was rebuilt by REME .It has the army stamp riveted on the bell housing as to the over size bearings . I was told during the end of the war that Ford was running out of cured blocks so they took vehicle blocks and rebuilt them for the army . They would say ,It was good enough ,they are going to be blowing all to H anyway
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10-02-11, 21:06
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well! I have said it before, but I will repeat. My father who made these carriers said they sent the engines in crates from Dagenham and they were all BLACK!!!!!!!!!! he knows as he was there!
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10-02-11, 21:15
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That figures, as I got hold of a brand new sump fro a British V8 still in packing grease and with wartime army label, and that was Black.
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11-02-11, 09:04
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Looks like we are back where we started, all sorts of colours! Does anyone one know the standard Dagenham engine colour before the war? I mean any engine, not only Flathead V8s.
Still leaves the Blue / Green 3.9L 24 stud issue open.....but not for my Loyd, the gearbox is already painted, and it is ford dark green, still wet at the moment.
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Alastair Lincoln, UK. Under Restoration: 1944 No2 MK2 Loyd Carrier - Tracked Towing 1944 Ford WOT6 Lorry The Loyd on Facebook Last edited by ajmac; 11-02-11 at 09:13.
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