Frankydobo:
I don’t really think Red was chosen for any particular properties and although there are already many images of Green and Red liveries on here we could likely fill as many pages with vehicles with Black chassis, wings and wheels especially from the 40’s/50’s period. Black paint will go with almost any other colour range from light hues, Cream, Yellow even White to darker colours such as Maroon, Blue, Green etc. Fortunately not every company stuck to traditional colours and we have seen some different but compatible liveries from the past also. Not too sure about some of today’s garish colours, I even saw a Pink four wheeler one day probably done for some reason but it looked awful and although some like the mural covered chromed up blingy show trucks they don’t do anything for me and I think a nice traditional hand signwritten job takes some beating. Franky.
I share your views on this one Frank, Good singwritting with the right colours take some beating, There is a Pink tractor unit knocking about Ponteland at present It looks like candy floss, Regards Larry.
steelboyf10:
Rotten shame
I think I drove past that in 1998 nr walkden ?
Frankydobo:
I don’t really think Red was chosen for any particular properties and although there are already many images of Green and Red liveries on here we could likely fill as many pages with vehicles with Black chassis, wings and wheels especially from the 40’s/50’s period. Black paint will go with almost any other colour range from light hues, Cream, Yellow even White to darker colours such as Maroon, Blue, Green etc. Fortunately not every company stuck to traditional colours and we have seen some different but compatible liveries from the past also. Not too sure about some of today’s garish colours, I even saw a Pink four wheeler one day probably done for some reason but it looked awful and although some like the mural covered chromed up blingy show trucks they don’t do anything for me and I think a nice traditional hand signwritten job takes some beating. Franky.
Hello Franky, not red as a colour but Red Lead primer and my point is red paint required less coats for cover. Back in the early '50s and next door to where I served my apprenticeship was a George Sellar workshop making farm implements, mainly ploughs, horse and tractor, Red Lead was used , it was without doubt the anti corrosion primer of the time.
Here’s a few quotes.
Wikipedia
The lead-based pigments (lead tetroxide/calcium plumbate, or “red lead”) were widely used as an anti-corrosive primer coating over exterior steelwork. This type of paint might have been applied to garden gates and railings, guttering and downpipes and other external iron and steel work.
From 1958
For many years, red lead has been recognised as an essential component, in combination with linseed oil, of priming paints for structural steelwork. The degree of protection afforded over long periods to many important steel structures provides ample proof of the soundness of this practice.
This in answer to why the Forth Bridge was originally painted with it.
Rust is a rather disordered collection of iron oxides (and that’s something of a simplification, but it will do for now). Because it’s disordered it has the properties we associate with rust: it’s loose, it flakes off, it crumbles. The upshot of which is that rust forms on the surface of iron, it flakes off so that oxygen can get to the underlying iron and former more rust, that new rust flakes off… and so on, and so on.
The idea of applying iron oxide as a paint is that it forms a controlled layer of iron oxide, which protects the main bulk of the underlying iron against further corrosion. It doesn’t “rust” because it’s already an oxide.
Red lead is also used to protect against corrosion so in this case the iron oxide primer may well have been used because it would bind to the read lead (and the top coat would bind to it) more effectively than the top coat would bind direct to red lead.
I accept that not all bare metal was treated with Red Lead, far from it.
Oily
I got stopped outside Guadalajara in the wee small hours for having two"moose lights" lit up over the visor.Spanish coppers reckoned their lorries don’t need them to get around and neither did i.I digress… my point is that most of these chromed up, ten spotlight lorries look like they’ve won a ‘Trolley Dash in Halfords’.I’d prefer a stock truck over chrome.Rat look even.
Lawrence Dunbar:
Frankydobo:
I don’t really think Red was chosen for any particular properties and although there are already many images of Green and Red liveries on here we could likely fill as many pages with vehicles with Black chassis, wings and wheels especially from the 40’s/50’s period. Black paint will go with almost any other colour range from light hues, Cream, Yellow even White to darker colours such as Maroon, Blue, Green etc. Fortunately not every company stuck to traditional colours and we have seen some different but compatible liveries from the past also. Not too sure about some of today’s garish colours, I even saw a Pink four wheeler one day probably done for some reason but it looked awful and although some like the mural covered chromed up blingy show trucks they don’t do anything for me and I think a nice traditional hand signwritten job takes some beating. Franky.
I share your views on this one Frank, Good singwritting with the right colours take some beating, There is a Pink tractor unit knocking about Ponteland at present It looks like candy floss, Regards Larry.
The pink lorries are to do with breast cancer awareness charities as far as I can remember gents Katem were running a pink artic you can even buy pink tools from sealey tools