IDJ Tue, 03/29/2022 - 16:39 prevnextoldernewer This device probably appears in the background of street-view photographs of the location from that time. Date picture taken 12 Aug 1934 Tags street furniture traffic light Author(s) IDJ Gallery 1930s Hong Kong Shows place(s) Junction of Des Voeux Road Central and Pedder Street [????- ] Log in or register to post comments Comments Here's a view from 1941 Here's a view from 1941 showing the lights on a little island between the tram tracks: Hong Kong, street scene near a post office, by uwm Log in or register to post comments EVA takes control Well spotted! Log in or register to post comments Traffic light date My guess was 1935 - so a near miss. Log in or register to post comments Where was the editor? Interesting to see a typo having slipped through in the original print article: "The Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., who, in connection with the who, in connection with the Electrical Department..." Log in or register to post comments
Here's a view from 1941 Here's a view from 1941 showing the lights on a little island between the tram tracks: Hong Kong, street scene near a post office, by uwm Log in or register to post comments
Where was the editor? Interesting to see a typo having slipped through in the original print article: "The Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., who, in connection with the who, in connection with the Electrical Department..." Log in or register to post comments
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Here's a view from 1941
Here's a view from 1941 showing the lights on a little island between the tram tracks:
EVA takes control
Well spotted!
Traffic light date
My guess was 1935 - so a near miss.
Where was the editor?
Interesting to see a typo having slipped through in the original print article: "The Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., who, in connection with the who, in connection with the Electrical Department..."