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![[Ultra-Brag]](../images/c/ch~ultr.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 15 November 2007
Ultra-Brag AG is also established in Basel:
http://www.ultra-brag.ch/
(Portrait in English [retrieved from 2005])
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 [retrieved | picture].
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 [not archived].
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" in Basel, Switzerland [founded in 1954]; it operated a grain silo
there; in 1991 it went into liquidation (in 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
On this page the flag of
the above mentioned forerunner company Ultra AG, Basel is being displayed (picture).
The new company Ultra-Brag was formed on 17.7.1975, with the current flag.
Martin Karner
