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Spry
English Robot with Modern Lenses MFR:
Tobler U.K.
Make: Fixed-Face Single Direction Robot
Years Made: Unknown
Estimated Year: Unknown
Lens
Size: 8"
Orig City: Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Orig Color: Black (should have White caps and center section)
Orig Configuration: 8-8-8 Vertical
Orig Visors: Tunnel with side notches
Orig Lenses: Poly crosshatched frosting
Orig Reflectors: Aluminum
Current Color: Same
Current Configuration: Same
Current Visors: Same
Current Lenses: Same
Current Reflectors: Same
Notes,
Commentary, Restoration:
Ok, there's nothing extraordinary this signal, they just like to call
them Robots across the pond. The construction is quite unique, as the Top and Bottom caps are a thick, rough cast aluminum with intricately molded doors and visors while the body itself is a thin formed and stamped sheet of Aluminum. Despite this frail appearance, the body is quite strong and more than capable of supporting the rest of the signal.
Underneath this black paint was the traditional white stripe scheme of endcaps
and the yellow aspect with only the green and red portions featuring a black color scheme.
This signal is pretty much identical to the older model except the casting of
the endcaps is better and the three lenses are polystyrene with a cross-hatched
pattern, similar to the yellow glass lens of the older signal.
Photographic Records:
Unrestored, Visors removed for shipping
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