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The seal of the Ministry of Transport is the Seal of Rāma Upon Chariot (see figure 38). This seal was originally the great seal of the Ministry of Public Works. This ministry formerly used the Seal of Indra Upon Elephant, but due to it being too large, the seal was changed to the Seal of Rāma Upon Chariot in order to match the work of road inspection or city planning. Once the Ministry of Public Works was dissolved and merged with other public services to form a Ministry of Commerce and Transport in the year 2468 BE[b 1] during the reign of King Rama VI, this seal devolved upon the Secretary of State for Commerce and Transport as his official seal. After this ministry was reorganised and renamed to Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Seal of Rāma Upon Chariot remained in use as the official seal of the Minister of Economic Affairs until 2484 BE[b 2] when the Ministry of Economic Affairs was dissolved and split into a Ministry of Commerce and a Ministry of Transport. Since then, the Seal of Rāma Upon Chariot has become the seal of the Ministry of Transport. (There is another version of the Seal of Rāma Upon Chariot at the Royal Museum.[b 3] This is probably the old version that was sent back when the Ministry of Public Works was dissolved and the one currently in use must have been newly created.)
The emblem of the Ministry of Commerce is the Seal of Viśvakarmā[b 4] (see figure 39). This seal was originally a minor seal of the Ministry of Public Works. Created
