Seeing red

@OutdoorEd and @BikerBabe established Phonebox Phriday so this is my attempt.  I have been speed-reading Wikipedia and sundry Falkirkian websites and now know rather more than I did yesterday about this example which is in the little village of Auchendinny.

It's a K6 telephone kiosk, the ubiquitous one: certainly the most common outside London.  This one was made by the Carron Company of Stirlingshire, who was one of the 'Big Three' alongside the Saracen Foundry and the Lion Foundry.  What I definitely didn't know before was that the crown above the windows is the Tudor Crown, which was used from 1926 until 1953 when the design was changed to St Edward's Crown, except in Scotland, whose telephone kiosks got the Crown of Scotland from 1955. 

What really surprised me is that the shade of paint is not BS381C 538 Post Office Red, but 539 Currant Red, which is very slightly more orangey.  I know BS381C quite well because my Coronet Minor woodworker is Post Office Red, while 110 Roundel Blue is the blue that anyone with a Record vice, or a model Spitfire will recognise.  In BS381C you can also find other interesting colours like Pale Roundel Blue and Pale Roundel Red that were used on the nuclear-capable bombers, because those less pigmented shades would absorb less electromagnetic radiation.

Our little Auchendinnian phone box is now a library, as so many of them seem to be nowadays.