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[edit] Napier Green
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Green was evidently Britain's chosen or assigned racing color from early on without any particular shade identified. In 1902, Selwyn Francis Edge driving a green Napier automobile won Gordon Bennett Cup in the Paris-Innsbruk race. They evidently called that color Napier Green. The sample in the table is from the car's color at Napier 30 HP and is the closest hexidecimal I could come up with. It would be a nice addition to this page if someone could find out when and how green was assigned to British cars and the transitions to the official British Racing Green color. DialUp 21:24, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- See comment below. Pyrope 11:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Deep Brunswick Green
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I found this sample of Deep Brunswick Green at British Standard 381c Colours. It was listed as 381c 227 and as hex #183828. DialUp 22:39, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I removed the BS 381C reference from the main text as, as you have pointed out, this is a colour chart (hence the C appended) and so contains a large variety of different colours, most of which are not even greens. Pyrope 10:07, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Link to vote for deletion page
Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/British_racing_green I put the link to the old VFD page for reference, since there is some useful info on it that someone may want to merge into article.
[edit] Votes for deletion results
This page was listed on votes for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/British racing green for the results of the debate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Speed limit?
According to Top Gear, the Gordon Bennett Cup race was switched from England to Ireland because Parliament brought in a speed limit of 12mph. Not sure how true that is. violet/riga (t) 20:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Standard colour
While the term "British Racing Green" comes from motor racing, there has never been a prescribed shade. British racing cars have been painted every shade of green. The standard shade has acquired currency outside motor sport. - Ian Dalziel 06:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Indeed, in fact I would dispute the given reasoning for the adoption of green as Britain's racing colour. As far as I can recall, having been a Motor Sport reader for a while now, the first instance of green in use as a racing livery was by Aston Martin, who chose green to reflect their then recent sucesses in the various Ulster Trophy races. This was a lighter shade, closer to the Napier Green above. Green was then adopted by Bentley and later MG and so came into common use for British cars. Has anyone else heard this version of events? Pyrope 11:39, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I think Napier's use of green, and the adoption of green as the British colour in Gordon Bennett and then Grand Prix racing pre-dates Aston Martin. I am not so happy about the cavalrymen of Braunschweig and the locomotives of GWR being in this article. I do not believe that either colour was ever described as British Racing Green and I do not believe that either influenced the choice of green as the British motor racing colour. I think I shall remove those paragraphs unless someone can come up with some justification for them. -- Ian Dalziel 09:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. The Brunswick/Braunschweig connection seems like reverse reasoning to me. Pyrope 16:37, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- Eventually got round to removing the speculation. (though something had signed me off without my noticing) -- Ian Dalziel 11:54, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
