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Hi Everybody -- I have a Greeves alloy tank (the 2 gallon version) marked with the number 37 on a splash of light green paint.

As we all probably know this is almost certainly marking from the SSDT. I suspect that the tank was used - 1968 or 1969 or 1970 or perhaps 1971 but have no hard

evidence to support this. Can anyone tie a riders name to this information. Just to reiterate the bike would have been a Greeves or Triumph/Greeves and the year would

have probably been the late sixties, a year when a light green marking paint was used.

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Hi Everybody -- I have a Greeves alloy tank (the 2 gallon version) marked with the number 37 on a splash of light green paint.

As we all probably know this is almost certainly marking from the SSDT. I suspect that the tank was used - 1968 or 1969 or 1970 or perhaps 1971 but have no hard

evidence to support this. Can anyone tie a riders name to this information. Just to reiterate the bike would have been a Greeves or Triumph/Greeves and the year would

have probably been the late sixties, a year when a light green marking paint was used.

Which side is the tank marked on? Clutch or throttle side as you sit on the bike?

Could the colour be a "duck egg" shade of blue?

Big John

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That's only a couple of years short of the time when the scrutineers apparently (according to rumour amongst us observers at the time) found the paint still lying open from the previous year and had to replace it at short notice. Word was the works boys found the shop in the high street where it had been bought and stocked up accordingly with predictable effect........

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Hi again

Thanks for your interest.

The marking is on the left side of the tank and towards the front bottom as you sit on the bike.

It is a definite shade of mid to pale green, Not in any way remotely blue or duck egg blue.

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