Re: Vintage traffic signals (sidetracked from Tram & Pedestrian Accident Today - 22.12)

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

Darren H. <locob67@hotmail.com> wrote in message 38662ff9@nap-ns1">news:38662ff9@nap-ns1...
> Quite a way off the subject of trains I know, but does anyone know if any
> examples of these early traffic signals have survived? I can remember
seeing
> some of the clock-dial style signals in the late 1970's. Does anyone have
> photos of any of these early signals. It is just another interest of mine.
> Not sure why. I've heard about the Geelong lights, but have never seen a
> photo of them.
>
> Darren Hodges.
>
There was an example of the dial type traffic lights preserved and working
in Scienceworks, I presume it's still there.  As for the Geelong lights, I
can just remember them as a youngster, they were coloured fluro tubes on
poles mounted in the centre of the intersection.  My father drove through
three or four intersections with them before he realised that they were
supposed to be traffic lights, having seen nothing like them before or
since.

Regards

David Bennetts