Canterbury Green and Blue Grey - odd historic colours

[Mycroft]

Gary Gosney of this parish has kindly forwarded me (in Database Officer capacity) a load of build sheets for 109" sIIs, containing the factory details for over 240 1961 trucks.

The same hand transcribes each build and marks down details like colour, destination and date in and out of the factory.

In amongst a sea of Bronze Greens, Marine Blues and Mid Greys, there are two colours I haven't come across before - Canterbury Green and Blue Grey. The Blue Greys went to the Ministry of Aviation in Atcham, now an RAF facility. So no doubt a military/RAF special order.

However, Canterbury Green intrigued me. Five of this colour went to the Rossleigh dealership in Newcastle in dribs and drabs over the build sheets. Not a colour I've come across - is it possibly another name for Light Green?

Then there's 'Mist Coat' ordered by a dealership in Manchester (Rosenfield).

Anyone familiar with these colours or indeed know of any other colours that trucks came in?

[Exile]

Gary and I recently had this conversation in our local WhatsApp group

IMO, it is most likely that the colour was specified by a commercial/fleet user who wanted the Land Rovers painted in their corporate colour.

[autorover1]

Wasn't Mist coat a primer colour that could be ordered for further painting in corporate colours or vehicles supplied for conversions .

[22900013A]

Canterbury green I believe was the colour for North Eastern Electricity Board before they changed to orange.
My 88" was in Beldene Green (special dark emerald green for southern electricity board) my 1 Ton is in SEB Green, aka Atlantic green, their post 1966 colours.

Mist white and mist grey are undercoat colours for later painting, an example of these being the TACR1 fire tenders, later painted dayglo red among other colours.

[Phil2014]

This is my October 1960 built ex NEEB 109, still with most of its original Canterbury green paint under the blue, which was done in 1968, the reason I have done very little with the bodywork. Supplied to Rossleigh in Newcastle.

[Mycroft]

Thanks for the replies guys.

Phil, it looks like your truck is one of the vehicles on this build sheet - great to see one having entered so many of them on the database in the last few days!