Well, it appears to be the C. R. England coat of arms. Do you have any evidence it is not?

First of all, for future reference, the official description of the “Royal Arms of England,” which you can read about on Wikipedia, is as follows: “Gules, three lions passant gardant in pale Or, armed and langued Azure.” This means: “On a field of Red, three lions ‘passant’ (which means passing, with three paws on the ground, and one paw up) ‘guardant’ (looking at the viewer, rather than to the side) in pale (arranged vertically, one over the other) Or (gold), with claws and tongues of Azure (Blue).” These arms were first used by Richard I and by his descendants until the mid-1300s. They are not the “Royal Arms of the U.K. of Great Britain & Northern Ireland” today. (see below)

The coat of arms used by the C. R. England Trucking Company are different. If it was officially granted by the English College of Arms, then it appears to be a coat of arms granted to someone with the last name of England, and would probably be described this way: “Azure, three lions passant guardant in pale Or, armed and langued Gules.” In other words, it is similar to the old “Royal Arms of England, but the background color is blue instead of red, and the color of the lions’ claws and tongues (if designated) would be reversed as well. That’s it. Pretty clear and straight forward. Two completely different coats of arms.

You apparently never paid close attention to the official “livery” of the British soldiers and guards (red and gold). That’s why they always called them “red coats.” Their coats reflected the primary tincture (color) of the monarch’s coat of arms … Red.

In a previous post, I think I originally said the lions were “rampant,” and of course, that is wrong. They each have three paws on the ground, so they are “passant,” and they have their heads turned and facing the viewer, so they are also “guardant.” I had to brush up my terminology a bit.

For me, the interesting question is this, did Mr. C. R. England and his trucking company inherit this coat of arms, as the oldest son of the oldest son, etc., back to the man who first received this grant of arms? I have no reason to assume he did not inherit it legitimately. Or did he begin using it even though it really belongs to someone else (a distant cousin who actually is the oldest son of the oldest son, etc.). Or, was this coat of arms actually granted directly to Mr. C. R. England by the English College of Arms? (I have a friend who served in the U.S. Army and was given a grant of arms by the English College of Arms, so it is possible.)

Or, lastly, did Mr. C. R. England, as an American citizen, simply design and “assume” this coat of arms himself, which he has every right to do. (As American citizens, we are all equal under the law, as we rejected the old feudal system during the American Revolution, and the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives each of us “the right to keep and bear arms,” which includes both weapons and coats of arms. That is why the U.S. government does not have a College of Arms.)

In any event, it is his trucking company’s official corporate logo. And it is NOT the same as “The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” which is also the official coat of arms of the British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II of England. This coat of arms is actually a composite of three different coats of arms, arranged in quarters. In the first and fourth quarters appear “The Royal Arms of England (see above). In the second quarter is the arms of Scotland, and in the third quarter is the arms of Ireland. Even more different than the C.R. England coat of arms.