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 Type E 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 Type E lens.

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