1953 Birch Grey grille & wheel colours

[minorsrus]

Hi, I have a 1953 Series 2 in Birch Grey. Can anyone confirm what colour the wheels and cheesegrater grille centre should be please?

[Dean]

The wheels will be birch grey too.. now the grill I'll struggle with, If it has the passenger sun visor and smiths heater then it is of the higher spec model... an educated guess would therefore be a white grill... It wouldn't be a darker colour that's for sure. If it doesn't have the passenger visor then it was a lower specification, so the grill would also be birch grey.

[HarryMango]

The wheels & grille would originally have been Birch Grey whatever spec it was.

Rog

[Ian46]

I think Harry is right.

Wheel colour always follows body colour, so black for black, green for green etc.

From my knowledge (and I could be wrong) the black painted cars have Clarendon Grey painted grilles and Clarendon Grey cars have Birch Grey painted grilles, but the Birch Grey painted cars' grilles were painted the same as the body colour. I know that to be true of my Empire Green '52 MM but not sure about Thames Blue or Mist Green.

Perhaps some one else can confirm.

Regards

Ian