Surrounded by Swastikas

Swastikas pop up in the most unlikely places, including all over India and a building on a U.S. Navy base.

One of the odder sightings was sent in to me recently by a reader who works at a refinery in Texas. Some parts of the refinery are pretty old, and need routine maintenance and/or replacement. What do they find when they cut open some insulation to inspect an old fitting but this interesting corporate logo:

In fact, there were swastikas all over the place in the early 20th century. The Crane Valve company used to use them on almost all its valves:

As the corporate website drily notes: "The swastika unceremoniously disappeared from Crane valves in the 30’s as a certain country in Europe began using it."

Comments

[Schorsch]

erm....India is actually one of the most likely places for a swastika to show up, and has been so for around 5000 years. Wanna be sure you get vegetarian food in China? Just look for the swastika outside of the restaurant and you can be sure that they serve buddhist i.e. vegetarian fare.

[orangeshow]

Velcome to the Crane Valve company, new engineer....now pull down your pants for the 'inspection.' Heil Hitler!