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<p>New page: FILES TO EXAMINE--2007-05-12 This list has been produced by searching for {signs} within DSIR. DSIR 12/156 (1944 committee on unauthorized signs, literature survey on signs) DSIR 12/167...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>FILES TO EXAMINE--2007-05-12<br /> <br /> This list has been produced by searching for {signs} within DSIR.<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/156 (1944 committee on unauthorized signs, literature survey on signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/167 (effects on driver behavior of halt and slow signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/170 (effect of halt signs on accident frequency)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/172 (lifetimes of three different types of retroreflectorized road sign)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/174 (retroreflectorization specification)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/175 (layout and lettering of advance direction signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/177 (progress on halt and slow sign research)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/178 (American versus European direction signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/180 (Preston Bypass proposed sign)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/181 (extension of yield sign experiment)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/182 (design of ADS; brightness of signs at night)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/183 (letter types for signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/186 (comparison/contrast between UK signs and American/European; time required to read, and size of lettering consequently necessary)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/188 (relative legibility of placenames and route numbers on direction signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/190 (legibility of green-background signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/191 (police reports on M5 warning sign system)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/198 (traffic sign retroreflectorization)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/199 (retroreflectorization issues)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/201 (sign brightness)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/204 (traffic sign lighting)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/253 (layout and lettering of direction signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/257 (illuminating signs on motorways; design of direction signs; motorway signs; uppercase versus lowercase; special signs at a roundabout in Middlesbrough)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/258 (conspicuity of signs according to background)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/259 (direction sign design &amp; letter types to be used)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/261 (time required to read a traffic sign; comparison of two layouts of ADS)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/262 (comparison of 4 possible designs of stop sign; proposed modification to Transport Heavy)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/263 (fluorescent pigments for school crossing signs)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/264 (legibility of signs with green backgrounds)<br /> <br /> DSIR 12/287 (Sign lighting--including picture of Preston Bypass sign)<br /> <br /> DSIR 28/445 (committee report on &quot;transport road signs&quot;--HGV plates?)<br /> <br /> <br /> There are some repeated titles. It will be necessary to watch RRL division codes to make sure reports submitted to multiple divisions are photographed only once.<br /> <br /> MFQ 1/708/12-13 (proposed plan of road direction posts for Borough Surveyor of Burton-on-Trent)<br /> <br /> MT 49/122 (road direction posts and signs)<br /> <br /> MT 54 Light Railway Plans--but no item entries!!! Potential for NWM plans here?</div>

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