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Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:15 am

That is a Federal Electric Type B. It's not a Sterling, Denver, H.O.R., or anything else for that matter.
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Wed Jan 29, 2014 8:17 am

Ugh I hate it when I never look.
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Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:33 pm

murrfarms wrote:That is a Federal Electric Type B. It's not a Sterling, Denver, H.O.R., or anything else for that matter.
For me it tends to get a touch shaky here, that does indeed remind me of the Mars Fire Siren I have seen a few times in ads on here. I THOUGHT that the Type B was a coded version of the Federal Fire Siren (or Federal Lion as we have called it). I will admit (though not loudly as my wife might overhear) that I don't know everything and some things are starting to mush together now, is there a coded and non-coded sub-group on the Model B or was my orignal thought correct in that the B was a coded Federal Fire Siren?

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Sat Feb 01, 2014 10:40 pm

I have never seen a closeup photo or video of a Mars siren. Did Mars actually build these or did they just sell relabeled sirens?
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:18 am

Well, I typed MARS siren into Google Images and this came up
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:25 am

That doesn't mean it's right.
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Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:16 am

Got a historical one for you all, which I've never seen before.

Browsing eBay out of boredom, found this: http://imgur.com/qMXBQft

Detailed as a Chicago Civil Defence photo, '43 era, testing their 'new' air raid siren. Dated May 21 1943. If I remember correctly, Chicago also had a few Chrysler's floating around? Or were they more exclusive to the West Coast?

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Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:23 pm

Justin wrote:Got a historical one for you all, which I've never seen before.

Browsing eBay out of boredom, found this: http://imgur.com/qMXBQft

Detailed as a Chicago Civil Defence photo, '43 era, testing their 'new' air raid siren. Dated May 21 1943. If I remember correctly, Chicago also had a few Chrysler's floating around? Or were they more exclusive to the West Coast?
I think this is the Bell Telephone Co. "Big Bertha" siren.

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Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:47 pm

Looks like a big Norelco shaver. :lol:
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Wed Feb 05, 2014 3:39 am

Looks like three twelve-port rotors.
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