Willis Lamm's
Traffic Signal Collection

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Marbelite 4-Way Signal

Part Two

This signal was a bit challenging as not only did the door faces have bullet holes, but one bullet struck a door where it joined the frame near a hinge. It required quite a bit of JB Weld and some auto body repair equipment. I was short one yellow long lightning bolt Corning lens so I used a Corning Type B lens from an old AGA signal. (The Type B lens was patented back in 1918.) The long bolt lenses are almost identical to the Type B. Marbelite used some Horni Signal castings and their stock visors were a more modern version of SSC's visors. (AGA eventually became SSC before Marbelite bought them out.) So the 1940s and 1950s Marbelite signals illustrated quite a bit of early signal history.

Testing the signal before hanging.

One of the bullet holes. Repairing the door that was shot next to the hinge. Bead pattern of the lightning bolt lens.

The same door repaired. Lightning bolt lens on left, Type B lens on right. Bead pattern of the type B lens.