Please help identify these car badges.

[mitsuru]

Please help me identify these car badges which I found at my great aunts.




I have sent a message to www.beaulah.com which manufactures these
things, but they have yet to reply.
Any ideas on them

[Relentless Rob]

It's very old French, possibly translated from Latin. I'll ask my grandfather and get back to you.

[Relentless Rob]

It's a Biblical reference Cornithians 14:19 and translates as "understanding my voice so others can learn".

Either a religious cult or early form of the I.A.M I'd guess.

[mitsuru]

Tanks rob, here is something to really throw it wide open!
My great Aunt and Uncle used to be Globe trotters so these
badges could be from anywhere!!

[OilyFingers]

I hate to throw a spanner in the works but that could be nothing to do with the car. Back in the day those what didn't need to work for a living used to put there own mascots and hereldic coat of arms type stuff on their cars. The Spirit of Ecstacy was nothing to do with Rolls but they later adopted it. Your far better off finding out what the coat of arms is from. You may find its from an old old family from the continent.

[OilyFingers]

I hate to throw a spanner in the works but that could be nothing to do with the car. Back in the day those what didn't need to work for a living used to put there own mascots and hereldic coat of arms type stuff on their cars. The Spirit of Ecstacy was nothing to do with Rolls but they later adopted it. Your far better off finding out what the coat of arms is from. You may find its from an old old family from the continent.

[mitsuru]

Right hand one is a gliding badge.

P45.

I think the one with the Latin moto might be a university or school!
As it is too new to be a pre ww2 car badge, as the clear feels like
it is plastic not glass.



coats of arms, Students' Union, Newcastle University

Coats of arms are (L to R): Armstrong College; University of Durham;
College of Medicine; the cross is the pectoral cross of St Cuthbert,
the 'apostle of Northumbria'. (The Durham link is because Newcastle
was a division of the federal University of Durham at the time that
the building was constructed; the two colleges were eventually
combined to give King's College, which eventually split off to become
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1963.) Look carefully and
you can see the strong arms (fortinbras) of the Armstrongs on the
first shield.

And the cross is that of Saint Cuthbert Who is buried in Durham
Cathedral, so it just might be from somewhere in County Durham.

[OilyFingers]

Sorry to be an anorak but St Cuthbert was exhumed when Henry VIII went on his Catholic rampage. The exact whereabouts of his remains are the best kept secret in the Anglican church, the Queen may ask but she will not be told. Only 12 members of Durham Cathedral know where he is at any one time and a new member is only initiated with the death of another.

One thing you have in Durham that you don't elsewhere is the title of Prince Bishop. Because of those moroding Scots the Bishop was in charge of keeping them out so could raise an army and had a rank similar to an Earl, he would therefore have his own coat of arms. The Diosese of Durham have had a long and illustrious relationship with the University of Durham even allowing them to use Durham Castle as Halls of Residence.

It may be that those badges were awarded to someone for long service or a good deed.

[mjslonergan]

Also they could be just the badges of different clubs and organisations, as you were allowed stick allsorts to the front of your car, before the health and safety of pedestrians was thought about, remember some of the old RAC or AA badges for instance...

[Renrut]

Stuff

I'll ask me mam. She knows far too much about Durham Cathedral and St Cuthbert. If its anything to do with either of them she'll recognise it.

[mitsuru]

Stuff

I'll ask me mam. She knows far too much about Durham Cathedral and St Cuthbert. If its anything to do with either of them she'll recognise it.

Your mam wouldn't happen tobe from this neck of the woods would she?

[OilyFingers]

It looks like the crest of one of the Colleges from Durham Uni. The closest I can find is St. Marys College but it could be from a defunct or merged college.

[Renrut]

Stuff

I'll ask me mam. She knows far too much about Durham Cathedral and St Cuthbert. If its anything to do with either of them she'll recognise it.

Your mam wouldn't happen tobe from this neck of the woods would she?

Nah she's from Guildford
But she works at Durham Cathedral Library and has done for quite some time plus she is a serious church goer and is very well read so it's likely she'll have come across it somewhere.

[mitsuru]

So your mam works in this neck of the woods.
Just curiosity, but where roughly are you based?

[Renrut]

I'm in Merseyside. Not lived in the north east for about 15 years but the old folks and some of the family still live up there. I grew up in the little town called Shildon if you know it.