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Mystery fire truck sirens

Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:41 am

My friend found these sirens and asked me if I knew what they were but I didn’t know so I hope you guys can help
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:57 pm

Here’s another one

Mystery fire alarm thing
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Tue Sep 17, 2024 12:37 pm

Fanman wrote:
Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:57 pm
Here’s another one

Mystery fire alarm thing
That is an Amseco SSX-52S security siren. It is vandal-proof and is an indoor/outdoor siren.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9od4O6lA58
https://www.pottersignal.com/commercial ... door-siren
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Tue Nov 05, 2024 6:43 pm

Small bump to it but what are the motorized ones?
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:33 am

The first one is made by Federal Signal, but the name escapes me at the moment.
The second one looks like those small yellow sirens without a tag seen on eBay a lot, particularly with the grille design (although the stator grilles are not consistent with it).
The last one has me completely stumped; I would say it's from the 1920s or 30s.

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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Thu Nov 14, 2024 1:59 pm

Thanks! Tho you don’t know the names then that’s okay at least the first one is FS. That’s cool😁
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Thu Nov 14, 2024 3:38 pm

Oooohhh my specialty! Allow me to help.

The first siren on the old WC54 Medic truck is a 24V Federal Electric of some kind, I am not sure what kind, since I'm better with 50s to modern fire sirens, but I've seen one of those before In a friend's siren shop, and it is heavy as HELL.

The second one on the Ford Fire Truck is an ADEMCO-looking model, which seems custom.
A ton of small Volunteer Fire Departments use custom sirens put together from old burglar or car alarms.
I own a USI Car alarm siren that was bought by a VFD in Ohio (not a meme or joke), given a custom motor and housing, and put on a truck in the 1950s. It's still sitting on the Diamond Plate it was on the truck.
Owner of 6 sirens, Including one of the two Pennington NJ Federal Electric Model 2s
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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Fri Nov 15, 2024 3:54 pm

ThatGuy2020 wrote:
Thu Nov 14, 2024 3:38 pm
Oooohhh my specialty! Allow me to help.

The first siren on the old WC54 Medic truck is a 24V Federal Electric of some kind, I am not sure what kind, since I'm better with 50s to modern fire sirens, but I've seen one of those before In a friend's siren shop, and it is heavy as HELL.
After a little more digging, it looks more closely to be something similar to a Model 66L or WLR. Unfortunately, I'm still getting nuances of small sirens ironed out.
As for the second one, it looks like a Yugo siren with custom stator grilles.

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Re: Mystery fire truck sirens

Fri Nov 15, 2024 11:09 pm

The first siren is a Federal Model XL (or sometimes seen as the Super X). A heavier duty version of the Model WL seen quite often on military vehicles.
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