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Cravens coaches - original interior colours / photos?

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Many of us are familiar with the later Cravens interior colour schemes, but they had been refurbished and no longer had the original colours of fabric. I think the panelling colours had also been changed. 

This description of the interior colours when new comes from an IRRS article, 'Modern CIE coaching stock' by D Kennedy, published in IRRS Journal 37, June 1965:

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I'm backdating a Murphy Cravens to represent one of the first 10 in original condition. The moulded dark blue seats can remain unchanged, and the tables need to be painted duck-egg blue.

I would like to represent the blue-checked panels in the saloon if possible. I have a vague recollection of the end partition walls of the saloons being in a blue check pattern on some Cravens, but all my interior photos show the later scheme with wood-effect laminate. 

Has anyone got a photo showing the blue checked panelling on the interior of a Cravens coach?

Is it too much to hope that one of the preserved vehicles still has this scheme? 

Many thanks, Mol

 

P.S. I think these photos show the original scheme in the Inchicore-built Cravens coaches, dark grey seats, light grey panelling and black tables:

Kennelly Archive | The All-Ireland Senior Football Semi-Final

Holdings: New Craven coach, interior, Inchicore, Co. Dublin. :: Library Catalog

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17 minutes ago, Horsetan said:

Pity there wasn't the use of colour film for those 

It would still have been grey!

Edit: Here's a 1980s photo from Neil Smith on Flickr which shows the pale grey interior of the Inchicore-built coaches, but this one has been re-upholstered and new tabletops fitted: 

Ireland Coach Drogheda

 

Part of my untrustworthy memory says that one of the RPSI coaches has the blue check panelling. But that recollection may have been filtered through the bottom of several glasses of stout

Edited by Mol_PMB

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