greeves 20T petrol tank paint code

[greeves]

Hi there everyone

Does anyone know the paint code used on a 1957 20T petrol tank? The colour is a light blue/baby blue. Been told its ICI spectrum blue but unable to find the appropriate code for this colour.

Cheers Charlie

[Andy Briggs]

Hi Charlie,

Really sorry: a. Can't help with the colour code; 2. Hijacking the thread!

Don't suppose you have a spare tank do you? I have a '58-model 20TA, which came out of the factory in late 1957, and I'm trying to get hold of a standard steel tank for it. Condition unimportant, etc... Can't harm to ask! Thanks.

[John Wakefield]

There is a steel tank on eBay for £120 http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/for...ead.php?t=5741

[Greevesnut]

1958 Scottish Tank Paint

I have found a hand written note in my Scottish file which says that on 5th April 2010 Chris Goodfellow put a message on this Forum about the pale blue paint used on early Scottish tanks.
According to Chris/my note it was called Ice Blue and made by Pinchin and Johnson and is apparently the same colour that was used on Invacars.

[Brian Thompson]

Scottish Tank Colours....

See Post #2 on this thread for Chris's original post, and some further info that may be of help; http://www.greeves-riders.org.uk/for...?p=308#post308

It's always worth doing a quick search.....especially in the area of the forum dedicated to paint questions....called 'Paint'.... It's a sub-forum that we specially set-up just after the forum first went live so we can keep all paint related info in one place to make it easier to reference. It can be located just below 'Parts Sourcing' in the 'Engine, Cycle Parts & Spares' area on the main forum page.

Hope it helps.

Brian.

[Andy Briggs]

Reply to John: Thanks for this link; I had checked it out when you originally flagged it up. No go though, because the tap hole is on the left and I need one with the hole on the right! Ho-hum.

[John Wakefield]

Reply to John: Thanks for this link; I had checked it out when you originally flagged it up. No go though, because the tap hole is on the left and I need one with the hole on the right! Ho-hum.

Could you not braze in a new threaded bush on the opposite side & blank off the other.

[Mike Norris]

Tank

On my 25dc I had a suitable nut welded onto the right side of the tank and I now have a reasonable sized reserve.
Who cares about originality if you run out of fuel.
Mike

[Stan Nicholson]

I remember with my 25DB in the early 60s running out of petrol on occasion (as a pennyless apprentice) and running the front wheel up the bank and laying the bike over on the LH side to release the petrol trapped in the RH side of the tank. It would get me a few miles and hopefully to a petrol station. My reserve
Stan

[John Wakefield]

I remember with my 25DB in the early 60s running out of petrol on occasion (as a pennyless apprentice) and running the front wheel up the bank and laying the bike over on the LH side to release the petrol trapped in the RH side of the tank. It would get me a few miles and hopefully to a petrol station. My reserve
Stan

Yep I have done this myself Stan in the wilds of Norfolk when the tank 'apparently' ran dry, just enough left in the other half to get me 3 or 4 miles to the next filling station. Strange that Greeves 'penny pinched' in not fitting a second tap to road bikes, which as you say would have made a useful reserve. Would have cost only a few pence back then.

[dave higgins]

Yep I have done this myself Stan in the wilds of Norfolk when the tank 'apparently' ran dry, just enough left in the other half to get me 3 or 4 miles to the next filling station. Strange that Greeves 'penny pinched' in not fitting a second tap to road bikes, which as you say would have made a useful reserve. Would have cost only a few pence back then.

Out of fuel on the side of the road, trying to shake a drop more out of a dry tank & you call greeves penny pinchers...........

[John Wakefield]

Out of fuel on the side of the road, trying to shake a drop more out of a dry tank & you call greeves penny pinchers...........

Nothing to do with penny pinching, I knew I had to get some petrol & was aiming for a filling station near Brandon where I would have topped up. but fuel ran out a bit earlier than expected, & there were no other filling stations along that road, the B1112, after leaving Stoke Ferry. So get your facts right before making uninformed statements

[Colin Sparrow]

Filling stations are few and far between in rural Norfolk! (and Suffolk).