[Healeys] Ivory white, Old English White, and Pale Ivory

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In a message dated 11/13/09 8:49:30 AM, healeys-request at autox.team.net 
writes:


> Ivory is not old english.
> Buttercup v st
> 
> 

Begging your pardon, but the earlier posters are correct: Ivory White and 
Old English (never Olde English) White are the same color. AFAIK, Austin and 
Morris used different names for the same paint code, and sometime after 
Healey assembly was moved from Longbridge to Abingdon, the naming got 
rationalized.
HOWEVER, Pale Ivory is NOT the same as Ivory White. Pale Ivory, in fact is 
a yellower white somewhere between Ivory White (often described as a "creamy 
white") and Primrose. Incidentally, Ivory White/Old English White was a 
very common color among English cars, and was used as the standard white on 
Jaguars of the same period. My 1960 Jag MkII and my 59 BN7 had identical shades 
of white.
Gary