Wolverhampton Princes Square c1932

[Mikeya]

Just a fine image of a junction in Wolverhampton in the early 1930s and showing the location of the 'first' automatic traffic signals outside of London that went up in 1928.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36844288@ ... ateposted/

[Chris Bertram]

They're not the absolute originals - those were a 4-way signal hung from span-wire. See the Princes Square wiki article for a photo. But there was a post-mounted 4-way like this there for many years - I remember it being there in the early-to-mid sixties, at which point it was replace by a conventional installation with signals at the stop lines.

[traffic-light-man]

What a fantastic image, thanks for sharing! I'm led to believe they were Forest City signals on the post, though I don't remember where I read that, and those look suspiciously tin-lantern-like.

I'm assuming that's an early attempt at a box sign under the green aspect, does anyone know what it read?

[Steven]

I'm assuming that's an early attempt at a box sign under the green aspect, does anyone know what it read?

"Keep Left" IIRC.