Hello From Missouri - Federal Signal Clock

[FD7101]

Hello everyone and thanks for the opportunity to be here! I'm not huge in the world of sirens, but I stumbled across a few things and wanted to gain some knowledge and see if maybe I have something that someone else may need or just an interesting keepsake. Long story short, I was able to acquire a Federal Signal Model 5 and all of the controls from our City Hall. Siren was beyond help sadly and is long gone now, but I held onto the rest and honestly had forgot about it until cleaning the shed a while back. I sold the PGA timer to a Fire Department looking to fix their system. The Federal Signal clock is the piece that's got my interest the most here.. Is there anything special/collectable about this or is it a common and ordinary piece? Thanks for any information.

[Stormsetter4]

What part of Missouri are you in? I'm down by Branson.

[r4tbolts]

Pretty common back in the day, but that would be a long time ago. Not many around anymore IMO. Had one exactly like that in one of the VFD's I was on a few years ago. Used to be used for fire calls but in the later years was used for Tornado Warnings. Had the opportunity a couple times to hit that alarm button.

[TBolt Guy]

Is the timer for sale?

[Daniel]

Those clocks were usually made by Verdin and used for controlling church bells or school bells. This type has one circuit that was used for a daily or weekly siren test. It could either drive the motor starter directly with an adjustable 1-60 second pulse (there's an adjustable cam inside) or send a pulse to an AR/AF timer.

[Minnesota2T22]

That's very interesting. I never knew Federal Signal made clocks.