Bucknall retained its former livery with changed flag letters and the Ellerman pennant above: white JRE on blue, over a blue flag with red E&B in three white diamonds, replacing BSL. The blue is dark. The original lavender funnel had a band equal in depth to the top and Bucknall’s Teeth, intended to show three from any angle. Rosanoski dates this funnel to the 1930s, but Merchant Ships 1949 gives 1945. City names and the Ellerman funnel appeared in the early 1930s; the flag lasted until the 1970s reorganisation. American Indian Line is credited with the earlier funnel, though ships may also have worn Ellerman colours.
The fleet commodore swallowtailed both the houseflag and Ellerman pennant. Rosanoski presumes proportions comparable with the museum’s c.1951 houseflags: pennant 660.4 × 1752.6 mm and flag 1143 × 1778 mm; the museum supplies measurements without an image.
Bucknall was acquired in 1908 and renamed Ellerman & Bucknall in January 1914. It merged into Ellerman City Liners in 1973. A later source records acquisition from P&O Nedlloyd by Grindrod & Co. in 2001.
Norton, Lilly advertised American & African, American & Manchurian, American & Australian and American-Mediterranean-Levant services around 1919–27, apparently naming them with Edward Lloyd. The American & Indian service originated in 1894 with Bucknall Brothers and Edward Lloyd, resumed on 16 January 1919 after the Armistice, and ceased in 1930. Joint ventures included Canadian City Line with McLean Kennedy and MANZ Line with N.Z.S. Co. and Port Line in 1937. South African ship names beginning with K gave way to City of names.
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