And they should too... Borrowing from my art school days paint chips always
will be a bit darker as there's less surface area to absorb/reflect light.
Of course these days we can have a paint sample broken down at a good paint
store and an exact match produced, but it must've been tough on the folks at
Abingdon doing it by eyeball 50 years ago.
-Scott
52TD
>From: "Charles F. Inman" <floydinman@compuserve.com>
>To: "PMS GB Ltd" <100070.740@compuserve.com>
>CC: "Scott Allen" <s4usea@hotmail.com>, <BobMGT@aol.com>, "Kevin &
>Deana Brown" <MGTRAutoXr@sprintmail.com>, <mg-t@autox.team.net>,
><elan@efortress.com>
>Subject: Re: MGTD Paint
>Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 13:31:35 -0600
>
>You must acknowledge that 1950 (a bit over four years after the war ended)
>control was measured with the eye. Red was red, provided it was "close" to
>the chips used as samples, however, if we look closely at the chips
>provided
>in sales literature (and other documents) we will see a slight variation.
>
>We must appreciate how closely they were able to succeed, albeit not
>perfect.
>
>Floyd Inman
>
>
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><MGTRAutoXr@sprintmail.com>; <mg-t@autox.team.net>; <elan@efortress.com>
>Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 1:20 PM
>Subject: Re: MGTD Paint
>
>
> > Message text written by "Charles F. Inman"
> > >We all must remember, back in the early 1950's there were a bunch of
> > painters working at Abington that just wanted to do their jobs as well
>as
> > possible. They were painting as many cars a day as they could and as the
> > bucket ran a bit low they added what they had to fill it again.
> >
> > As a result, practically every batch was a bit different. <
> >
> > Could you provide authority for this statement?
> >
> > My understanding from one involved there was that by 1950 paint colour
> > control was tightly maintained to exacting standards.
> >
> > Clive Sherriff
> > Oxford UK
>
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