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.

[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.

[chosenman]

I have an L42 chest with a dark dark green paint on the outside, and a paper label indicating the Abingdon location stores it came out of on top of it. The dark green is definitely not the issue khaki but it must have been done before it was released from the MOD and sold to Canada. Any ideas anybody?

I have an L42 chest with the side panels painted dark green. It's a ex Royal Green Jackets rifle and the green is their regimental rifle green. There are another 7 cases out there the same. It could be one of them?

[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.