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We have a couple of pictures of this signal from Mlps historical society. 1937 at an intersection in downtown Mlps and another from 1940 showing a push button on the corner for walkers to change the sign for crossing the street. I hoped the plug on the bottom would be a clue to a controller.I'll keep tying to make it work. Larry

Karlson wrote:We have a couple of pictures of this signal from Mlps historical society. 1937 at an intersection in downtown Mlps and another from 1940 showing a push button on the corner for walkers to change the sign for crossing the street. I hoped the plug on the bottom would be a clue to a controller.I'll keep tying to make it work. Larry

For those of you wondering "what in the world is Mlps"...it's Minneapolis.

RunsWithCrouse-Hinds wrote:

Karlson wrote:We have a couple of pictures of this signal from Mlps historical society. 1937 at an intersection in downtown Mlps and another from 1940 showing a push button on the corner for walkers to change the sign for crossing the street. I hoped the plug on the bottom would be a clue to a controller.I'll keep tying to make it work. Larry

For those of you wondering "what in the world is Mlps"...it's Minneapolis.

Thanks Dan... I actually was clueless

The City of Milwaukee used a very similar signal in the 20's-30's.

It reminds me a lot of the Peterson "automatic" signal that was wound up mechanically and then would cycle.