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RalphMH Samba Member
Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 85 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:32 am Post subject: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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I recently purchased this badge. It is about 8x11 cm, chrome plated and enameled, made by Lehmann & Wundenberg, Hannover in Germany. It is not flat but slightly curved. Does anyone have any information about it?
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hitest Samba Member
Joined: September 30, 2008 Posts: 10296 Location: Prime Meridian, ID
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Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:12 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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I can't offer help with that badge. But I'd bet, like in the US back in the day, if you had a doctor's badge on your car- you could park virtually anywhere.
At least around my home in the 70s, if a doctor's car had a simple, green spot decal about 1-1/2 round stuck in your back window you had THE parking pass. _________________
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67ctbug Samba Member
Joined: January 24, 2016 Posts: 3619 Location: CT
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:50 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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Yup Connecticut used to issue “MD” plates and I figure if you had that you got a pass. Probably what this is. _________________ '67 Beetle L41
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...or the PO envied the terrorists' bus in "Back to the Future". |
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He's fine, just waiting for the dragon in winklepickers to move out of his lane. |
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jack1448 Samba Member
Joined: October 27, 2012 Posts: 271 Location: Northern NJ
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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hitest wrote: |
.... But I'd bet, like in the US back in the day, if you had a doctor's badge on your car- you could park virtually anywhere.
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True, but why the VW emblem on the badge? Something doesn't seem right with this one. |
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NASkeet Samba Member
Joined: April 29, 2006 Posts: 2947 Location: South Benfleet, Essex, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:09 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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My father had a BMA - British Medical Association white-metal & red-enamel badge on his cars. He could also have had a green flashing light on the roof as well for emergency use, like the blue ones for police, fire, ambulance, coast guard and bomb-disposal.
https://old.lightbaruk.co.uk/green-flashing-beacon...ic%20laws. _________________ Regards.
Nigel A. Skeet
Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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RalphMH Samba Member
Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 85 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 12:23 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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In the meantime, I found a reference to the badge myself. This was indeed original available from VW, as the photos and the text from the VW Information magazine No. 31 of 1957 show. There you can read on page 36 next to the picture the following:
Arzt im Dienst - Marking for the VW. Especially popular, because especially suitable for them, the VW is with the doctors. In order to mark the car on official journeys, there is the VW doctor badge, with red cross for doctors belonging to the DRK, with green cross for doctors who are in the Hartmannbund, and neutral with the inscription doctor. A plastic cover that can be slid on quickly covers the badge mounted on the bumper support when the vehicle is driven privately.
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7839 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 1:50 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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nice info - now you've got to find a cover for it! _________________ "we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut
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RalphMH Samba Member
Joined: March 03, 2005 Posts: 85 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 7:27 am Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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no need to find a cover
I own two of those badges, and both still have their original covers
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NASkeet Samba Member
Joined: April 29, 2006 Posts: 2947 Location: South Benfleet, Essex, UK
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:38 pm Post subject: Re: enamel badge Arzt = doctor |
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67ctbug wrote: |
Yup Connecticut used to issue “MD” plates and I figure if you had that you got a pass. Probably what this is. |
In Great Britain, "doctors" (i.e. medical practitioners) typically hold two complimentary bachelor's degrees in medicine & surgery (i.e. M.B. & Ch.B. in Scotland etc, and M.B. & B.S. at some other institutions). The M.D. held by relatively few medical practitioners, is a higher research-degree in clinical medicine, taken after one has at the very least, completed the 5 or 6 year ultra full-time bachelor's degree programme and subsequent post-graduate training.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom
In recent decades, the number of medical schools in the United Kingdom has considerably expanded.
https://www.gmc-uk.org/education/how-we-quality-as...ew-schools
My father commenced his medical training as a mature student aged 27¼ in October 1956, at the Queen's College, University of St. Andrews, in Dundee, Scotland; gaining clinical experience at the DRI - Dundee Royal Infirmary, Maryfield Hospital & King's Cross Hospital in Dundee, plus a stint in the casualty department (i.e. accident & emergency department in modern parlance) in Greenock, near Glasgow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dundee_School_of_Medicine
NASkeet wrote: |
My father had a BMA - British Medical Association white-metal & red-enamel badge on his cars. He could also have had a green flashing light on the roof as well for emergency use, like the blue ones for police, fire, ambulance, coast guard and bomb-disposal.
https://old.lightbaruk.co.uk/green-flashing-beacon...ic%20laws. |
In most parts of the World, the BMA - British Medical Association membership card, is recognised as a passport to enter, visit and/or use the local medical facilities; something my father did in various countries of the World, including Iceland, Ethiopia and South Africa. It also enabled us to visit the British MRC - Medical Research Council research laboratories in The Gambia, West Africa during our Easter holiday in 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Medical_Association
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/units/mrc-gambia _________________ Regards.
Nigel A. Skeet
Independent tutor (semi-retired) of mathematics, physics, technology & engineering for secondary, tertiary, further & higher education.
Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
Onetime member, plus former Technical Editor & Editor of Transporter Talk magazine
Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
http://www.vwt2oc.net |
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