Motor control box

[Rickabilly]

(06-13-2012, 04:43 PM)Hopefuldave Wrote: I see you went with the patriotic wiring for Her Maj's jubilee, too

As have our American friends

They pre-empted the Jubilee by hundreds of years, very forward thinkers and you're not even Her Majesties subjects, but still Red, White and Blue everywhere!

Hey guys please don't me,

Incidentally the history of "Old Glory" is really very interesting, with the very first American flag adopted by the Naval fleet immediately after the declaration of independence, This "prototype" flag containing a Flag of Great Britain in the Canton, instead of white stars on a blue field, apparently it was a way of creating a flag and insulting Britain as well, the ships all had red ensigns (the flag of the British Navy) so they took these and added the white stripes, effectively "defacing" the British symbol with 13 stripes signifying the 13 colonies that had revolted. Apparently they hadn't realized that the flag they had created was an accurate copy of the Flag of the East India Company. A year later what we think of as the original flag was adopted, this being the 13 stars in a circle version(Betsy Ross).
Typically, Hollywood has created and made popular, an image that never existed, that being the Union Jack being held by the British and the "Betsy Ross" version of the 1777 US Flag being held by the rebels. None of which was true, the Union Jack didn't even exist until 1801.

The point of all this is that I have been researching this for a while and can't find a single instance where the American Flag and the Union Jack have been on opposite sides of a battle field, at least not on purpose and the colours Red, White and Blue have symbolized "Union" continuously since 1606 when the Scottish and English Flags were combined. It's no wonder then that these three colours mean so much to so many. We even adopted them to represent the colours in our electrical wiring.

Sorry about going so far off topic

Best Regards
Rick