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A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...
The markings were then repeated by a second set at right angles to the first. Depending on usage, the marked scale numbers could refer to distance or speed. A second disc was marked with a circular scale all around the edge labelled in degrees, with radial lines from the centre of the disc stretching out every ten degrees.
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
Two Metropolitan Police Hyundai i30s in "jam sandwich" livery (left) and Battenburg markings (right). The "jam sandwich" livery on police vehicles across the United Kingdom has today been replaced by Battenburg markings, first introduced in 1998 on the recommendation that the livery makes the vehicle easily identifiable by oncoming drivers as a police vehicle from at least 500 metres (1,600 ft).
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