Location
Photographed at Strathcathro services and it came from Dingwall so it undoubtedly passed through Aberdeenshire.
mobile artefact
Description
Scania tractor cab and articulated livestock trailer painted in green with pale yellow lining and red shaded yellow lettering, on panels and side windows. Motifs of thistles, tartan and cartoon cattle.
Related Information
On the roads are 2 distinct types of decoration for long distance haulage vehicles. The majority are fleet vehicles in liveries of companies designed to create corporate identities by those who make a living designing such things. The other sort are owner driver's vehicles or those that belong to small haulage companies that draw an artistic inspiration from older sources. The traditions of coach-painting once popular with showmen and travellers and the 'harness pride' of the horsemen of the past. Like them they use apotropaic symbols (symbols to avert evil) and symbols of national identity. This popularity of the use of symbols of national identity such as saltires, lions rampant, tartan, thistles etc. is shared by the decorators of trawlers presumably it is felt important because both the trucks and the boats travel internationally.
Era
2000s
Categories
Iconography
- bull or cow
- cartoon characters
- heraldic motifs
- plant
Photographer
- David Watson Hood
Unavailable Data
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