Austin A40 Sports - Colours & Trim

I don't know of a allround list of body colours Austin A40 Sports available during the production run. To complicate things Austin seems to have changed the available colours in the two and a half years the car was produced.

Late 1950 launch colours were: Ming Blue, Apple Green, Cream and Black.

For November 1952 the Austin Service Journal lists: Apple Green, Romney Blue, Azure Blue Metallichrome, Steel Dust Gray, Bahamas Cream, Ming Blue, Peacock Blue, Sky Blue, Sports Fawn and Black.

Based on this information I compiled the following chart:

Austin A40 Sports colours

The seem to be very few surviving cars that still have their original interior, so based on pictures, plausible original trim variants might have been:

 

Burgundy upholstery with cream piping and red carpets

Black upholstery with cream piping and gray carpets

Gray upholstery with burgundy piping and gray carpets

Beige upholstery with green piping and fawn carpets

 

Front seats on my car are covered in real leather, the back bench in leathercloth. There is a comtemporary ad claiming the material was supplied by Connolly. Sides were trimmed with Rexine.