Emergency vehicle light

Claim 1

In an emergency vehicle light including an elongated base adapted to be mounted on a vehicle roof and equipped with a plurality of longitudinally aligned warning lights mounted atop said base, and an elongated translucent globe mounted on said base and enclosing said lights, the improvement characterized by the fact that said globe is generally obround in plan having generally straight sidewalls and generally hemicylindrical end walls all integral with a generally flat top, a plurality of horizontally spaced apart, vertically extending ribs on the interior of said walls adapted to receive placards to transmit different visual images than from said lights alone, a plurality of placards mounted between adjacent ribs, the ribs on said sidewalls having a stepped profile in horizontal section to support the vertical edge of an associated placard away from its associated sidewall, each of said sidewall ribs having associated therewith clip means for restraining inward movement of said associated placard, said clip means being integral with said sidewalls and located adjacent the top thereof.