wilderness ·
hey everyone, just wondering if anyone has heard of or knows of anyone repairing/reconditioning semaphores??
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Semaphores
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glider69 ·
57oval ·
What sort of repairing do you need, might be able to help?wilderness wrote:hey everyone, just wondering if anyone has heard of or knows of anyone repairing/reconditioning semaphores??
68AutoBug ·
wilderness wrote:hey everyone, just wondering if anyone has heard of or knows of anyone repairing/reconditioning semaphores??
they were called trafficators...
never ever called semaphores... except by the Americans...
whose beetles never ever had them...
so, naturally, never knew what to call them...
they were also used on many European and UK made cars...
during the 50's and called trafficators...
LEE
wilderness ·
Thanks Lee,
I think it came from working for a Pommy for many moons??? haha
Also cheers glider69, looked at the link and he sounds like da man!!!
Thanks again.
I think it came from working for a Pommy for many moons??? haha
Also cheers glider69, looked at the link and he sounds like da man!!!
Thanks again.
HappyDaze ·
When I worked for a (Sydney) VW dealer, 50 or so years ago, we called them semaphore arms.68AutoBug wrote:wilderness wrote:hey everyone, just wondering if anyone has heard of or knows of anyone repairing/reconditioning semaphores??
they were called trafficators...
never ever called semaphores... except by the Americans...
whose beetles never ever had them...
so, naturally, never knew what to call them...
they were also used on many European and UK made cars...
during the 50's and called trafficators...
LEE
Cheers, Greg
Phil74Camper ·
Greg you'll have to sit down and write me your VW life story for the Club VW magazine - I would love to publish it.
Trafficators is a British name for the same thing (like spanner/wrench, boot/trunk, windscreen/windshield) - Australia in the 1950s was a lot more British than American but we seem to have an interesting mix of both.
Lee the US-market Beetles DID have semaphores, up until 1955, when they were replaced by flashing blinkers. Australian models had semaphores until halfway through 1960.
Trafficators is a British name for the same thing (like spanner/wrench, boot/trunk, windscreen/windshield) - Australia in the 1950s was a lot more British than American but we seem to have an interesting mix of both.
Lee the US-market Beetles DID have semaphores, up until 1955, when they were replaced by flashing blinkers. Australian models had semaphores until halfway through 1960.
Bookwus ·
Hiya All,
It's true, it's true. We have semaphores all over the blinking place up here (no pun intended 😂)Phil74Camper wrote:.....the US-market Beetles DID have semaphores, up until 1955, when they were replaced by flashing blinkers. Australian models had semaphores until halfway through 1960.