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(The Salt Lake Tribune) Lester Wire, at right, N.W. Silver and a pair of later metal traffic lights in 1940.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Lester Wire, at right, N.W. Silver and a pair of later metal traffic lights in 1940.

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