Bialaddin M320 Colour?

Can anyone tell me whether this lamp...



would originally have been this colour http://0flo.com/index.php?posts/2415

 

I guess so - that's the colour I'd be respraying it anyway.

 

Were there any Nato versions of a Bialaddin 320 - assuming it is a Bialaddin?

 

Sorry, should have said, 'the NATO versions of the M320'...

 

The military ones would not have the red top! No sense in painting the fount olive drab and have a red top shouting at the enemy (I think they come with black enameled tops only).

Best regards,

Wim

 

Lamps with the red hood tended to be silver, remember the saying about red and green.

 

Gosh John I thought that was an old woman's saying! Nowadays, of course, anything goes except in the realm of pressure lamps.

 

Some people think I am an old woman. However, I don't think a red hood looks right with a NATO olive fount, bit like a military civvy cross breed.

 

Yes it is, unless the glass and the control knob have been replaced.

It's had a bit of a cleanup and the washers etc replaced.







As soon as I find a decent match for the paint it will be resprayed...

 

I like the looks of the polished fount!

Best regards,

Wim

 

I like the look of what's in the glass . . . !

Is that a nice honey mead?

The lamp looks good like that, different.

 

Only Fosters I'm afraid...

 

As soon as I find a decent match for the paint it will be resprayed...

Would that be the green or the silver,if it is the green, NATO olive would probably be your best bet. Sorry I can't find the spec, not too sure if there is one, but try your local pro car paint supplier.

 

I think I'm pretty much decided on the silver now, I have the Vapalux version with a black lid so I should be able to get a reasonable match...

 

Wasn't that blue and green?

 

Sorry, there never was a Bialaddin M320!!

Bialaddin 320s were made for the Civilian Market. At this time the Military were using the Bialaddin 305, the very same lamp became the Vapalux M1 when W&B started to move away from Aladdin Industries in 1966.
About 1980 W&B stopped making the Vapalux M1 and the Military then used the Vapalux M320. This was the first M320. It had a silver tank till about 1990 when drab olive was first used on a 320 lamp.

The Bialaddin 320 came with silver, cream and chrome tanks and a mixture of black, red and green hoods, no green tanks.

Cheers....soon be Newark!!

 

Definitely red and green. Back in the 70's our scout group decided to change the colour of our neckies from just plain dark green, and a consultation was held as to what it should be changed to. The winning choice by a country mile, was to apply a red border round the edge, at which point my mother made the remark about red and green.

Incidentally, this is where I first learned to use a Bialaddin 315.

 

Nah - surely it is (two local sayings):-

Blue and green
should never be seen
except upon a fairy queen, or

Blue and green
should never be seen
without a colour in between...

I think red and green look OK together - they're Christmas colours. What about those 1951 Coleman 200 Christmas tree lanterns - ...

 

Red and green,
Should never be seen,
Except upon a fool.

 

Never heard that one!

 

Nor me. But if red and green navigation lights are seen together - get out the way - It's coming straight at you!!

 

It was always

Blue and Green
Should not be seen
Without a colour in-between

 

Thought someone might have spotted my deliberate mistake!!! No cream tanks on 320s that was the 315

 

I think it would look pretty good in cream and I even have that colour spray already, but I'll hopefully look for a match for the silver this weekend.

I have a resprayed bialaddin 315 in silver and it's always annoyed me that it's not a great match so I might respray that one at the same time if I can find a better shade.

 

Tis definitely red and green here in The Peoples Beneficient Republic of Greater Ashton-Under-Lyne.

 

Like this Derek?

 

Try hammerite smooth silver. That's what I use.

 

John G, no not quite, he's not dead ahead - yet!

More like this:



Steer to starboard - show my red.

 

Here it is completed... It's not a perfect match but it does look the part.



Very pleased with the result and my wife didn't moan too much when I baked it!

 

Looks absolutely fine to me.

I don't think there's much point in going for a perfect match for something that's either decades old or was produced for decades - they'll all be slightly different shades by now depending on the various factors in operation throughout their life. Yours will be a slightly different shade in a couple of years anyway...