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Sundebus HH

Norway

by Antonio Martins

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Some flag-related notes from my vacation in Scania in August 98, left overs from my "new former" notebook.

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The small ferry that took us to and fro belonged to Sundebus HH, and it's houseflag (missing from our collection :-) is a 2:3 blue over red per bend with an white uppercase sans serif "M". Why an "M", I don't know but I can only speculate that this particular houseflag once bellonged to a company called "M"-something which was renamed or bought or merged to Sundebus HH...

by Antonio Martins

This may imply that house flags are some how fixed for sea usage and it is not that easy to change them, like company logos and such (like logo flags for land use). This idea of mine (that might add some weight to the notion that house flags are not *that* irrelevant) is reforced by the fact that this very same company Sundebus HH uses in land (poles by the company peer, ticket office etc.) a completely different flag, consisting of a red upper case serif "S" (for Sundebus), on a red bordered white square canton of a 3:2 (and not 2:3!) white and green wavy background.

This company, anyway, was operating its ships under Norwegian registry and had the Norwegian flag hoisted on the rear staff. Two other flags are hoisted from cables in midship, the Danish flag in starboard (sp.?) and the Swedish in the port side.
Antonio Martins, 21 October 1999