Ultra-Brag, Switzerland (original) (raw)

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