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image by Eugene Ipavec,
15 November 2007
Ultra-Brag AG is also established at Basel
(second url is English version):
http://www.ultra-brag.ch/
http://www.ultra-brag.ch/index_e.html and the description provided
certainly seems familiar, having been founded in 1925 and being �an
internationally active Swiss logistics and river navigation firm domiciled in
Basel� but there is no evidence of a house flag I believe � the company logo
would be nice on a flag, that is certain � and anyway the similarity of names
may be accidental.�
See a fitting house flag on the Kustvaartforum (i.e.
coastal shipping forum) site, fifteenth flag photo, lower left corner:
http://www.kustvaartforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=173&highlight=rederijvlaggen.
Red hoist taking up one third of the field, a white couped cross in the
upper part (representing Switzerland) and blue fly with white chevron
pointing away from the hoist. The chevron�s sides and point touch the flag�s
edges.
Actually a table flag, its existence as a real-life one is vouched
for, I feel, by the fact that is appears in above collection belonging to
Karl Scherf � I saw it at Duisburg last summer.
Jan Mertens, 14
November 2007
Ultra may have been a predecessor of Ultra-Brag:
http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schependb/inhoud.php?action=tel&id=6413.
It is not
�Ultra Brag� as it says on this Binnenvaart page but simply �Ultra� as can be
read on the house flag illustrated.
Red field,
white off-centred cross, the word �ULTRA� in black letters on the white arms
of the cross (vertically and horizontally, the �T� being in common, no
serifs).
There once was a firm �Ultra AG� at Basle, Switzerland (founded
when?); it operated a grain silo there; in 1991 it went into liquidation
(at Bern). It may have been taken over by Brag, from then on called Ultra-Brag.
Although above page shows the flag � as a drawing, I have not
found any photos � it oddly does not appear on the Binnenvaart flag table.
Jan Mertens, 17 November 2007