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You can tell in the photo with the Austin Champ that yhe arm of service marking is diagonal, so the red/blue 46s in that set aren’t accurate (and the style of the numbers is wrong for 04BB69, of course).
Going by the second photo of that Saracen, the vehicles weren’t white: the characters on the number plate are clearly lighter than the armour plate they’re on. First the values for the top part of the letter A:
And at the same height, but between the AoS marking and the number plate:
Since the values for R, G and B are about equal, the colours in the photo are basically grey — not too surprising, of course — and black is 0,0,0 while white is 255,255,255. Clearly, if the characters were white (as they would have been) then the rest of the plate was some pale colour, but not white. A pale sand colour, perhaps? I’m not up to speed on what was used on British AFVs on Cyprus in the 1960s, though.
Going by the second photo of that Saracen, the vehicles weren’t white: the characters on the number plate are clearly lighter than the armour plate they’re on. First the values for the top part of the letter A:
And at the same height, but between the AoS marking and the number plate:
Since the values for R, G and B are about equal, the colours in the photo are basically grey — not too surprising, of course — and black is 0,0,0 while white is 255,255,255. Clearly, if the characters were white (as they would have been) then the rest of the plate was some pale colour, but not white. A pale sand colour, perhaps? I’m not up to speed on what was used on British AFVs on Cyprus in the 1960s, though.