Irish Royalty - Park Royal Coach Next For IRM

[Mayner]

10 minutes ago, irishthump said:

Black and amber was how I've also heard it frequently described...

Remember a heated discussion with my cousins (all of us teenagers) on a summer holiday trip to Bray (late 60s) who were convinced that the carriages were dark blue and amber, though at least we managed to agree on the amber.

[Mol_PMB]

The original intention was for the area around the windows to be dark olive green, officially CC.239 'greenfinch' equivalent to BS381C 279 'steel furniture green' . As far as I am aware this was never actually applied, but was substituted with black. Black was always intended for the roof, ends and underframe/bogies.

The lower colour was described by the designer as 'saffron', but the numerical colour reference CC.222 (equivalent to BCC.74) given was officially called 'golden brown'. 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, irishthump said:

Black and amber was how I've also heard it frequently described...

That’s as good as anything. It certainly wasn’t brown, and the term used “golden brown” just doesn’t make sense. Nor was it  pure orange, as such. 

It was an orange shade with a distinctly brownish tint, so “amber” or, unfortunately, “tan” were (and are) probably the most technically apt descriptions…..