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>> "Spinner Brett Fitzpatrick" <spinner@mpx.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:499b8921.0412152257.6cf4ad6d@posting.google.com...
>> > "According to a 'bit of reasearch' the green used on the 38s 40, 41etc
>> > was Dulux Verdant Green Paint Number
>> > 388-04838. I believe this paint can still be made as the specification
>> > is still current.

Paint manufacture has changed about three times since that specification.
It is unlikely you will get much satisfaction if trying to order it.

>> > The Dulux paint colour number, 338-4838, was derived from the year
>> > (1948) and application (38 Class), a point confirmed by Dulux.  338
>> > indicated the paint type and manufacturer.

388 indicates it is a Dulux brushing enamel.  The paint number 4838 is 
purely coincidental.

From the 1950s, Sydney's trams and buses were painted with Dulux Non-Fading 
Green 388-0011, although I have also seen a can with the number 388-11007, 
and it appears that at some stage Dulux's numbering changed from a 
four-digit number to five digits.

The Public Transport Commission (NSW) blue and white were 388-12128 Mandarin 
Blue and 388-09828 Riviera White.  Mandarin Blue was also available in three 
other formats as indicated by the three digit prefix.  Prefix 393- was Dulux 
Solid Spraying Enamel, 426- was Dulux Acran Solid Acrylic Enamel and 526- 
was Dulux A-type Solid Acrylic Lacquer.393, 426 and 526.  The paint format 
and composition of the mix depended on how the paint was to be applied.

Bob Merchant