BMC OEM engine colours
Engine families, UK market
- BMC A-series
Small four-cylinder pushrod engine built from 1951 to 2000 for the Austin A30 and A35, Morris Minor, Mini, Sprite and Midget, Metro and much else. Sources agree the block was green for roughly the first twenty years and black after that, but no factory paint code has been found, the green varied from batch to batch, and every changeover date is argued over.
- BMC B-series
Four-cylinder pushrod engine used in BMC saloons and MG sports cars from the mid-1950s to 1980. The badge decided the colour: maroon in an MGA or early MGB, green in a Farina saloon, and black in every MGB from the 18V engine of 1971. No factory paint code has been found for any of them.
- BMC C-series
Six-cylinder pushrod engine of 2639cc and 2912cc, built from 1954 to 1971 for the Austin Westminster and its Wolseley, Riley and Vanden Plas relatives, the Austin-Healey 100-6 and 3000, and the MGC. The sports cars are the reason this page exists: their engines were finished in a pale metallic grey-green that no two suppliers mix the same way, while the colour used on the saloons is not established by any source we could fetch.
By car
- Austin A30
- Austin A35
- Austin A55 Cambridge Mk II
- Austin A60 Cambridge
- Austin-Healey 100-6
- Austin-Healey 3000
- MG Magnette Mk III
- MG Magnette Mk IV
- MGA 1500
- MGA 1600
- MGA 1600 Mk II
- MGB
- MGB GT
- MGC
- Mini
- Morris Minor
- Morris Minor Series II
- Morris Oxford Series V
- Morris Oxford Series VI
- Riley 4/68
- Riley 4/72
- Wolseley 15/60
- Wolseley 16/60