The purple coloured epaulets were awarded to Marine Engineers by Queen Victoria to recognize their bravery during the sinking of the HMS Titanic. Purple is important in this context because for a very long time purple was a colour only worn by royalty, it was therefore special.
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The use of color was important in the days before television and the Internet, and so there were two major color themes that were closely associated with women's suffrage: 1) The use of gold or yellow with a variety of other colors and 2) The use of British suffrage colors (purple, white, and green) and the American variant, which was purple, white, and gold.
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The Actual Gold Weight (AGW) is .24187oz of pure gold.
ASLEF - Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.