a green cross is used in europe to denote a pharmacy, very superficial
treatment is given, and the kits in the cars are for very light
treatments

Geoff, Green cross is used by Gobachev's Green Earth foundation, it's used
by the ''Medical' Marijuana people and it's pretty common for first aid,
mind you, not the serious kind

cheers, guenter

Uncharacteristically for Germany, there's no hard-and-fast rule for the
colour of the first-aid kit, although the contents of the kit are
subject to a DIN. I had a navy blue one with a white cross when I was
living there, and thought it odd - hard colour to seek out under poor
lighting. I mean, if you were going to standardise something like that,
you'd go to the trouble of mandating high-visibility yellow or orange,
Shirley?

Under paragraph 35 section h of the traffic act, you are obliged to
travel with one, although for the life of me, I cannot imagine what use
it would be in a *real* emergency - a few compression bandages, rubber
gloves, a survival blanket. I guess it goes back to the days of needing
to tend for someone who'd been knocked about, while someone else sought
out a (working) payphone.

If they'd thought to include a fold-up shovel, I guess it would come in
handy for hitchhikers.

Peter