Paint Colour of South African vehicles North Africa WW2?

[GeeRam]

As Peter says, same as British Army.
From 6 October 1941, a letter was issued by Staff Duties Branch of GHQ Middle East Forces concerning the policy on painting of vehicles in view of the shortage of paint in the ME theatre. Thus one colour should be applied to all vehicles, artillery and afv's, specifically a colour called Light Stone, British Standard Colour No.61 and known as ME Standard Colour No.23. (as an amusing aside, the latter also noted that, in order to expedite painting with the minimum of delay, "the practice of throwing sand on the paint will be discontinued")

The only other thing I would say is though, is only the RAF received the Canadian WLC models, not the Army, so I'm not sure there would have been any WLC's in British or Commonwealth service in the Med theatre....??

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[GeeRam]

The only other thing I would say is though, is only the RAF received the Canadian WLC models, not the Army, so I'm not sure there would have been any WLC's in British or Commonwealth service in the Med theatre....??

OK, scrap that, just checked my book on wartime motorcycles, and noted that SA bought a load of 1200 side-car outfits and 750 solo, all civilian models as the order was direct with HD before USA entered the war. So, not supplied under lend-lease or via British WD.
Must be ultra rare to find one of those.........very cool