David Ingram-Seal wrote:

If the repaint was 1966/67 onward I may not have to touch the paintwork, the only alteration will be if it comes with the later Epoche IVb klasse graphics.


David, I can sympathize with your uncertainty. I've recently been reading up on the subject of liveries and inscriptions of DB sleeping and dining coaches in early Ep IV, and discovered the subject to be a hotbed of controversy. As just one example, nobody seems to be quite sure when the colour of the DSG inscriptions changed from yellow to beige, other than it was sometime between 1954 and 1974! The available evidence seems to show that the instructions at at least some depots prescribed yellow inscriptions until as late as 1974, but the photographic evidence suggests these instructions were largely ignored by the painters long before that.

Cheers
Tom