The information on this page applies to production colours used by the Rootes Group from 1954 to about 1965.  For information about paint colours during the Chrysler era, please go forward to the next page

The chart below was produced from information supplied by Vic Hughes in Canberra, who obtained it from a printed Wattyl Paints chart at a paint shop in June 2003.
(Wattyl is an Australian company, more famous for its house and furniture paints).

Colour code stickers on the horizontal panel at the top of the firewall match the "BPI Code" in this chart.  It seems that "LE" codes might indicate Lusteroid brand, and "BE" codes indicate Berger brand, although my sage green Gazelle paint is "HM5207" from Berger. A Rootes paint colour is actually a mixture of several more fundamental paints, each of which also had its own part number.   WINDSOR BLUE   P030-3088   White                     P030-9929  88%   Black                     P030-9901   9%   Blue Lake                 P030-9930   2%   Reduced Monastral Green   P062-9905   1%

The above colour analysis appears on the back of the original 1950s-1960s ICI paint sample card owned by Glen Davies.  When I get time, I'll produce a feature page of the full range of sample colours.  So far, we haven't discovered a way of translating those Rootes colour part numbers into another manufacturer's language.

Wattyl has chosen to produce only the most popular colours, which you see in the chart below.