Tartan Identification

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 29th March 09, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Tim Little

Pure conjecture on my part, but I wonder if the Mercedes tartan didn't have something to do with their relationship with Scottish Formula 1 driver David Coulthard. When he was driving for McLaren, the team used Mercedes engines. (Actually, they still do.) Just a thought....

My late father had a MBZ 300SL coupe back in the early 60s and it had tartan seats. That was about 40 years before Coulthard signed on with the Silver Star cars, so I suspect that there isn't much of a connection. But then again, who knows how the MBZ corporate mind works?

**TheKiltedWonder** · 29th March 09, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

As for Mercedes Benz having their own tartan, I for one applaud them for this move

Forget applauding--this has moved up my kilted wish list!

As long as Chrysler didn't play any role in it...

**bjproc** · 29th March 09, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by O'Callaghan

I was always a big fan of Sean Connery from the James Bond films. We have a complete set ... on VHS. Now I suppose we will have to collect the DVDs.

I think Sir Sean was bron and raised near Glasgow, which is pretty much the rustbelt of lowland Scotland, and that he used to be a milkman (someone who delivers bottles of milk house-to-house, an explanation needed because they stopped doing this in America in the '50s or so). Many highlanders and Irish immigrants came there for the steel and shipbuilding industries.AFAIK on his mother's side were local lowlanders with no clan or tartan, and his father's side were Irish tinkers. Sean Connery is about as Irish a name as it's possible to have, nothing Scottish about it atall. Matt pointed out that he had worn Maclean and believes it is on his mother's side somewhere. Doubtless so, as highlanders also migrated there for work, but it may not necessarily be a very close family connection.

So, I think that it's a bit much to lament that he mostly wears tartans that aren't linked to his heritage. I believe he is in the same position as many other Scotsmen, where it is a stretch to find a link to a clan tartan, if they even can atall.

Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, and his mother was a Maclean

from wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Connery