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

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

> 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.

The Geelong lights were probably not fluoro.  More likely to be neon or
similar.

JD
--
John Dennis
Home of the Dutton Bay Tramway
http://www.acslink.net.au/~jdennis/dbt.html


Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.