I can confirm he's not the guy responsible for the vanishing act but I'm hoping there may be a couple of the metal ones still in use somewhere. I imagine some of the large authorities with as huge amount of signals and a dwindling maintenance budget may still have some... fingers crossed. Peter Peter Jones Principal Traffic Systems Engineer Phone: +44 (0) 151 934 4254 Fax: +44 (0) 151 922 4514 Sefton MBC - UTC 7th Floor Balliol House Balliol Road Bootle L20 3NJ >>> Grahame Bath <grahame.bath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 06/07/2007 17:00 >>> Thanks Peter I feel sorry for the guy - provided he didn't collect some of it from our poles. No problem with plastic units - but metal lanterns...........does anybody still use them? Regards Grahame. .............................................................................. Senior Engineer Network Management & Information Team Transport for Surrey - Surrey County Council 020 8541 7346 (Tel) 020 8541 7366 (Fax) ................................................................................ "Peter Jones" <Peter.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: "TCUG" <tcug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ton.gov.uk> cc: Sent by: Subject: [TCUG] Old lanterns tcug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/07/2007 16:52 Please respond to tcug You may have heard about a young man by the name of Simon Patterson who collects traffic signal equipment as a hobby... mostly lanterns. He appeared on the Paul O'Grady show a few weeks ago and they arranged to ship a selection of equipment down to London for the show. On it's return to Simon's home in Knowsley (Merseyside) however, much of the equipment was damaged quite badly, especially the old metal lanterns. 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