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OrnAlert wrote:Something tells me that allertor is a Mobile Directo


A mobile directo is a belt-driven version of the allertor. It is either rumored or true that the mobile directo also has a non-flared projector
For Hanako: The Allertor that I saw in southern Vancouver was a Mobile Directo, because it had belts. At first, I thought that it was some kind of strange ventilator.
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OrnAlert wrote:Something tells me that allertor is a Mobile Directo


A mobile directo is a belt-driven version of the allertor. It is either rumored or true that the mobile directo also has a non-flared projector
Didn't the early Allertors not have rotators?
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From what I've heard all of the Mobile Directos had some form of a rotator mechanism. The one in that pic is an electric Mobil-Directo. I think Memphis, TN has one that is still in service.

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holler wrote:From what I've heard all of the Mobile Directos had some form of a rotator mechanism. The one in that pic is an electric Mobil-Directo. I think Memphis, TN has one that is still in service.
RamFett says that Milwaukee's old system had mostly Model 2s, non-rotating Allertors, and Mobile-Directos. By the sound of Mobile-Directo, it sounds like they rotate, but does anybody know any places that still use Allertors before the rotator was added to the design?
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Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:30 pm

carexpertandy wrote:
holler wrote:From what I've heard all of the Mobile Directos had some form of a rotator mechanism. The one in that pic is an electric Mobil-Directo. I think Memphis, TN has one that is still in service.
RamFett says that Milwaukee's old system had mostly Model 2s, non-rotating Allertors, and Mobile-Directos. By the sound of Mobile-Directo, it sounds like they rotate, but does anybody know any places that still use Allertors before the rotator was added to the design?
I think y'all are under false assumptions. The Allertor/Mobile Direct-o and every other "Allertor" brand siren has always had some kind of rotation mechanism on it. In the majority of situations, it would be silly to have a large siren like that which only pointed one direction.

Perhaps you mean that the Allertors in Milwaukee have broken rotators.
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SirenkiD wrote:
carexpertandy wrote:
holler wrote:From what I've heard all of the Mobile Directos had some form of a rotator mechanism. The one in that pic is an electric Mobil-Directo. I think Memphis, TN has one that is still in service.
RamFett says that Milwaukee's old system had mostly Model 2s, non-rotating Allertors, and Mobile-Directos. By the sound of Mobile-Directo, it sounds like they rotate, but does anybody know any places that still use Allertors before the rotator was added to the design?
I think y'all are under false assumptions. The Allertor/Mobile Direct-o and every other "Allertor" brand siren has always had some kind of rotation mechanism on it. In the majority of situations, it would be silly to have a large siren like that which only pointed one direction.

Perhaps you mean that the Allertors in Milwaukee have broken rotators.
Thank you, that is what I thought.

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