>I don't know, but am wary of judging by photos. I am not sure the photo

of 2 in Bourke St you >attached shows the yellow - it looks like the
standard orange to me.
>Film and scanning can give different results for the same colour.

>I attach a pic by Trevor Triplow showing the two colours side by side.

>Without them being side-by-side, I would not be sure that 56 was in the

later yellow.

- Very true, that's why I requested CLEAR evidence; number two also shows
the different shade of roof paint, but the clincher is the non-original
"Straight" chocolate skirt. However, notwithstanding (the depot office
clerks hated big words like that on a 'Yellow'), I suspect that some of the
'repaints' may have retained the 'raised-end' chocolate skirts.

>I can take the 'straight' scheme back to car 71 with the help of Dick

Jones (attached pic) - not sure >if there was a clear break at a particular
number.

- that narrows it down a bit more . . .

>I think only the first 5 had gold numbers.

>My pic of No 6 (attached) seems to show the cream number.

>It was made in the first few days of Z operation.


- basically what I suspected, but had not seen confirming evidence before
(still haven't seen 3 & 4 with Gold numbers).

Thanks for that, Mal - we're well on the way to solving these riddles.

X=X=X

[Attached picture by Dick Jones, from TDU Archives]

Is it, or isn't it ?

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