Re: Clockwork traffic signal in Melbourne

On 28 Nov 2002 at 0:29, Graeme Cleak wrote:

Donald,

There was a number of these Traffic Signals around suburban Melbourne
in the past, although the intersection illustrated was an odd one out,
only showing red & green indications.

So, does that make my picture defective? Or yet more valuable?

The other intersections' signals showed red, yellow, green,. There
were probably at least 10 locations with them, (including Mont Albert
Tram Terminus, also Burke & Toorak Rd on current day Tram Route 72),
most went by the mid 60's, although a few pedestrian crossing sets
lingered in the southern beachside suburbs till the early 70's.

I am not aware of other cities in Aust. having them, from memory they had a very American makers name (Eagle Signal Co. ?) so presumably some US cities once had them??

Los Angeles and San Francisco both had fairly remarkable mechanical signals
into the 1950s. But I've never seen nor heard of anything like this elsewhere,
before or since. My recollection, for what it's worth, is that I saw a number
of them in Melbourne - including, I should think, at city intersections.

It would never have occurred to me that there could be a downside to a city's
tramway system's being intact and expanded. Fact is, though, modern pictures
crowd out the historic ones in the Melbourne books.

Don




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