c1932 PAIR OF WILCOT ROBOT 'TRAFFIC LIGHT' INDICATORS FOR A MORRIS - TRAFFICATOR
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Please see the pictures below the description Please also note that this is a new business account for us, so this is why we have low feedback. We have been selling our own personal items on eBay for the last fourteen years under the name of "kernowman" with a positive feedback of over 2800 - please check out both accounts if you are interested in pocket watches and other interesting, collectable items. You are bidding on a rare pair of Wilcot Robot miniature traffic light type of direction indicators that were originally fitted, for a very short time in the early 1930s, to Morris cars. One was mounted on each side of the car, and they showed red, amber and green both forward and backward. I have heard differing opinions as to how they were used - both opinions say when turning the green light was lit on the side you were turning to. The other side was either lit red or red and amber, some say these two also flashed. I have also heard that when travelling straight ahead, the amber light showed both sides. Perhaps somebody knows which is correct. These were fitted on 1933 cars because William Morris did not like semaphore type traficator arms, as 6d old money (2.1/2p) had to be paid in royalties for each pair fitted to any vehicle. However, the 'traffic light' system was so confusing that the then Minister of Transport, Hore-Belisha
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