UTA Lorries

[kirley]

Wishing to add some UTA vehicles to my layout, I'm trying to source coloured pictures of UTA lorries -the very few I've come across are all black & white? Even the name of colour to use would be most helpful.

Any suggestions please?

[David Jackson]

As far as I can remember, the UTA colour for lorries was the standard Brunswick green, but later on Eau de Nil appeared. Like you, I have not come across any colour pictures of lorries.

[kirley]

Thanks David for your information, I've tried to source the Eau de Nil colour but as yet I can't find any in the model paints range.

[David Jackson]

Just remembered I have a model UTA Removals Van in Eau de Nil packed away, although I don't ever remember them on Guy chassis. For comparison, is a picture of a Leyland Comet Removals Van in the same livery.

 

[kirley]

Thanks again David.

[colmflanagan]

Thanks David for your information, I've tried to source the Eau de Nil colour but as yet I can't find any in the model paints range.

 

The "eau de nil" colour was a bit like "duck egg blue" - a colour used (I think for the underside of aircraft wings, available from Humbrol & Revell) - it was a bit lighter, adding some white would get you close., I would have said it was more blue than that used for the furniture van in david's pic.. Of coure, here we get into the problem of sixties colour photography anyway..

 

Colm

[kirley]

Thanks Colm for your helpful advice, as usual.

[kirley]

I tried the Eau de Nil colour but it did not look right so green it became.

[jhb171achill]

By the 1960s, when I would remember them, most UTA lorries I saw were the light green, with as light bluish tint. This was the same as on some buses, but as far as I remember was subtly greener than the blue / green colour,called Catherwood "blue", as applied to a few railcars and coaches.