Talk:Broad arrow

Use for British Government Property
This was pretty inadequate so I added some info I gleaned from the net but I am very uncertain of dates etc and you will notice references clash. Our Board of Ordnance article is pretty vague too. Feel free to jump in...Gwinva? Mhicaoidh (talk) 04:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

A 1698 Act is said to have legitimised the mark, I can see it here but not here List of Acts of Parliament of the English Parliament, 1660 to 1699 Mhicaoidh (talk) 01:01, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

[] is of interest.Mhicaoidh (talk) 01:29, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Regarding Parliament Acts of 1711, 1722 and 1772 - its surprisingly hard to verify titles, years, content and effects. Mhicaoidh (talk) 23:15, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

well, I have found evidence that there has been a claim flying around that the symbol predates the use by Sidney since at least the 19th century, but this doesn't seem to be based on anything solid. This article's claim appears to have been mostly based on this page. Well, the sign simply consists of three converging lines. You can't go around and treat any example of three converging lines incised somewhere as "proof" that the sign was used before Sidney's time. What is needed here is a reference to credible, academic secondary literature which states as much. No amount of imagery of artefacts adorned with three converging lines is going to help here. --dab (𒁳) 13:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The "three converging lines" are intended to represent the arrow head from the arrows used with an English longbow - see bottom arrow head pictured at left. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 15:31, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Use in characterisation of internal combustion engines
Surely this paragraph does not belong on this page, but rather on the page about W engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_engine. Kiltpin (talk) 18:05, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

You would think so right, therefore very intriguing. Thus1king (talk) 22:36, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

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Prison Use
This is mentioned for Australia, but not for Britain. Prison clothes with broad arrows all over them were a notable feature of the UK penal system, and this should be mentioned in the article. 24.4.136.172 (talk) 18:33, 10 February 2022 (UTC)


 * From the article, section "Use for British Government property", subsection "Later use": "The broad arrow was routinely used on British prison uniforms from about the 1830s onwards." (with reference). There's also an illustration. GrindtXX (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)