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Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
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Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
A nice sheet I photogrpahed in a museum in Cameron Highlands last week. An intersting mix of styles but some obvious British influences!
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Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
It bemuses me that they needed a sign to say "metal stacked on roadside". Was that a common thing people needed warning of?
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RichardA626
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Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
I spotted that as well.vlad wrote:It bemuses me that they needed a sign to say "metal stacked on roadside". Was that a common thing people needed warning of?
Some of the descriptions are quirky, possibly back translated from Malay.
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Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
My hunch is it refers to the old expression of "road metal" for stone used in road construction, as in "unmetalled road". In a place where they were moving on from unsurfaced to surfaced roads, there were probably a lot of temporary dumps of material.
The signs in the top half look based very much on Worboys, so I might guess mid-1960s, although Malaya itself was transitioning to Malaysia by then. The ones at the bottom are influenced by older British ones which had been in use until then.
The pedestrian crossing image of the man with hat crossing, however, really looks like Ampelmann.
The signs in the top half look based very much on Worboys, so I might guess mid-1960s, although Malaya itself was transitioning to Malaysia by then. The ones at the bottom are influenced by older British ones which had been in use until then.
The pedestrian crossing image of the man with hat crossing, however, really looks like Ampelmann.
Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
I'd say they were taken from the Geneva Protocol on Road Signs and Signals (1953), which was itself the basis of Worboys (1963).WHBM wrote:The signs in the top half look based very much on Worboys, so I might guess mid-1960s
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Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
The sign that we would recognise as "no vehicles" (the empty red ring) is labelled rather enigmatically as "Mandatory (Obey road signs)". I suspect a translation gremlin - can anyone read the Malay or Chinese?
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Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
Would love to see a pre-Worboys style direction sign in Malaysia - has anyone come across a photo?
Pre-Worboys style signs were used in Australia (and probably most of the Commonwealth?) occasionally in the inter-war and early post-WW2 periods.
Pre-Worboys style signs were used in Australia (and probably most of the Commonwealth?) occasionally in the inter-war and early post-WW2 periods.
Re: Traffic signs of Malaya c1955
Mikeya wrote:A nice sheet I photogrpahed in a museum in Cameron Highlands last week. An intersting mix of styles but some obvious British influences!
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malaya road signs.jpg
nice and simple
speed limits
dont exceed 30
you may exceed 30 (unlimited)
