Gray paint on wood case????

[newcastle]

Tha bronze green, if it's similar to british racing green seems about right for this color off the top of my head.
I'll do a wee bit of stripping from a tiny corner tonight and check it out. also will note which depot it came from, though if brian dick is lurking he may know as it came through him before I got my paws on it.

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[newcastle]

it came out of Dince Hill, Abingdon. I remember now.

[Mk VII]

Repainting this sort of stuff was the kind of thing allocated to GDs men or defaulters. I used to have a tin hat that, underneath the sacking, was done in that vehicle bronze green.
Surplus navy paint seems to have been reused by other government departments too. Post Office Telephones had a lot of their older equipment in exchanges painted that colour.

[Peter Laidler]

There's no Dince Hill in Abingdon, Newcastle. There's a xxxxxxg great former RAF base that now houses Logistics troops but not a stores as such and definately not a B1 store

[newcastle]

I checked rather than relying on memory. It was Dince hill, Abingdon Road, London. this L42 case was number 126 of 151 apparently.
maybe this was just a staging point, I know not.

[Thunderbox]

Dince Hill Holdings Ltd is a commercial firm dealing in defence equipment and weapons spares. They are based in Abingdon Road, London - not the Abingdon town in Oxfordshire where the military depot is situated.

[gundoc2112]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but there is currently a No4T supposedly of Singapore police issue that has a transit chest with the same paint. Perhaps that is the origin.

[gundoc2112]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but there is currently a No4T supposedly of Singapore police issue that has a transit chest with the same paint. Perhaps that is the origin.

Rifle w/ grey transit chest is on gunbroker. I neglected to add that in my original post.