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Is this a siren?
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 3:28 am
by Hanako
I saw this siren some time back in North Vancouver, I read that in The Greater Vancouver Area there were, in fact, air raid sirens at one point.
Is this an air raid siren(or housing)? Or is it something else?
![Image](http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i302/HanakoFairhall/possiblesiren.jpg)
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:04 am
by hobbeekid
Hmmm, looks like a cartoon drawing to me, you ever see the movie "Yellow Sumarine"? it kinda looks like the yellow submarine periscope,not a siren.just an observation........
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 4:56 am
by Hanako
Yeah, I know it looks like a cartoon drawing, it's just my style, I didn't have a photo ^_^;
I put the person there for scale ^_^;;
And you're right, it does look like the periscope from yellow submarine
I guess I'll have to try and search for it and get a photo of that if I don't want to cause confusion
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:23 pm
by Whelen Rules
Its cartoonish, but it looks like a fog horn.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:25 pm
by SirenMadness
I wouldn't call something with such a wide tube a fog horn. Imagine all the juice you'd need to pump into it. I'm thinking it is a compressed-air siren of some sort.
Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:35 pm
by Hanako
Whelen Rules!!!! wrote:Its cartoonish, but it looks like a fog horn.
I know it's cartoonish ;__; I'm a cartoonist, that's the best I can do ^^; I'd have to go back to the thing with a drawing pad or a camera to get a good picture of it o_o and frankly, I'm trying to track down it's whereabouts right now o.o And Foghorn is a good guess, but it's in a middle of a city basically, so I can't see it being used for that anymore ^^;
SirenMadness wrote:I wouldn't call something with such a wide tube a fog horn, imagine all the juice you'd need to pump into it. I'm thinking it is a compressed-air siren of some sort.
Hmm, that's a good point, I'll probably ask the Chamber of Commerce or something about that ^^;
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:24 am
by 40V2T22
Does it possibly look like this?It probably wasn't made in Canada but it could be possible...
![Image](http://www.jmarcoz.com/sirens/kassel14_ge.jpg)
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:26 am
by Hanako
I'm afraid not, it looks kind of like a giant periscope with a grille the bell ^-^; I have a little cartoony sketch of it in the first post ^_^;
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:14 am
by SirenMadness
Because it looks like it has a very low end frequency, I think it might be used as an industrial signal.
I think it might be related to the monster shown below.
![Image](http://www.airraidsirens.com/posts/lighthouse_foghorn.jpg)
Though not even close in proportions, I think the same basic principle applies.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 2:44 am
by Hanako
that's the closest picture in this thread
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and I think that city used to be an industrial city
what would they use that for? a warning signal? o.o