A12 Essex TrafCar colour scheme

[bleesh]

Was proceeding along A12 towards Suffolk on Sunday at approx
.85 leptons overtaking a line of cars in lane 1 and noticed a "plumbers vehicle" or similar behind me in the distance - mainly black but with dayglo lime green writing on the bonnet.

Continued overtaking and only when it got closer realised it was in beemer estate.
No problems, completed overtake and pulled in.

Car was completely black with Police written on bonnet, sides and rear in that dayglo green - is this a standard for da essex Bib now or a trial??

Steve

[Greendubber]

It could very well be a demonstatoror it could be something they're doing so they can get higher resale value on the cars when they get rid of them.

Some of our cars are silver now instead of the traditional white for that reason.

[Hooli]

seen a convoy of 4 or 5 in those colours, bmws & mundanos out near ipswich somewhere. no idea whos in them though.

[johnnywb]

Most of the traffic cars i've seen in Essex are in this colour scheme

[bigdods]

I think you'll find that black is an excellent backdrop for advertising ;-) . A while back I spotted an NHS ambulance on a shout that had big advertising posters for something or other (might have been mobile phones cant remember exactly) on the sides along with several smaller A3 size advertising posters on the back and sides. Poster background and borders were black to make them stand out against the white of the ambulance. At first glance I thought it was a taxi or some such, the AMBULANCE signage wasnt really visible among the advertising, and I did have a moment where I thought what the hell is that taxi doing with blue lights on it ?

[bleesh]

Cheers for the replies people.

Maybe I've just been lucky in that I've not encountered these before when I am driving through Essex...

Interesting comment about advertising - as I initially thought it was something like a plumbers car or similar...

Steve