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Traffic lights

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Traffic lights, corner of Market and Kent Streets
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Traffic (Mr Bruxner) turning the key to set the new automatic traffic lights at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets in action 13 October 1933
Street signalling equipment: one of the new electromatic traffic signals which has been erected at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets October 1933
Traffic lights at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets flashing the 'Go' signal by colored lights when put into action on 13 October 1933
Traffic lights, Summer Hill 1939
Two Mark Foy's stores, Liverpool Street, Christmas 1936

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Traffic lights

Traffic lights, corner of Market and Kent Streets

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The first traffic lights installed in Sydney. Vehicle-actuated, the two phase system was put into operation at 11am on Friday 13 October 1933. Explanations of the lights and signals were published widely, but many drivers virtually ignored them at the time. In 1935 it was decided to introduce further signals at various points in the city and some arterial roads.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Traffic (Mr Bruxner) turning the key to set the new automatic traffic lights at the intersection ...

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[The Sun, 13 October 1933, p18 via Trove]

Street signalling equipment: one of the new electromatic traffic signals which has been erected at the intersection of Kent and Market ...

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1933, p18 via Trove]

Traffic lights at the intersection of Kent and Market Streets flashing the 'Go' signal by colored lights when put into action on ...

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[The Sun, 13 October 1933, p18 via Trove]

Traffic lights, Summer Hill 1939

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By
Sam Hood
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a215015 / PXE 789 (v.14), 25]

Two Mark Foy's stores, Liverpool Street, Christmas 1936

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By
Hall & Co
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[Home and Away - 35250]
(Mitchell Library)

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