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Sat Mar 07, 2015 3:38 pm

The kids are probably trying to figure out how to start the MD up. I'll bet quite a conversation going between the three.

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A couple of 1940 photos of Siemens sirens in Athens and Florina
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Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:30 pm

Unknown date. This must be a pre-1970 photo because Welland County became the Region of Niagara in 1970.
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CLM on the Saskatoon, SK public library
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Unknown date. Powell River, BC.
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This is the oldest Siren picture Circa 1915? A very old Federal and here is a surprise the "siren is still around" it is in the hands of a collector Will try to get a recording of it this summer From the Town of Lake VFD Department which is no more all anixed by Milwaukee by 1950. 2nd picture shows fire trucks not sure what year those fire trucks are from does someone know? I think 1915.

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Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:26 am

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Siren_Dude wrote:Mobil Directo from Toronto, probably taken in the 80's and a Mobil Directo on top of a school in Cambridge ON.
Wow awesome Cambridge find! I wonder if Kitchener/Waterloo had CLM's or Mobil Directo's.
I have the archive records for Kitchener/Waterloo so I'll find them and double check the type of sirens they had for you.
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Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:28 pm

Siren_Dude wrote:
Model2 wrote:
Siren_Dude wrote:Mobil Directo from Toronto, probably taken in the 80's and a Mobil Directo on top of a school in Cambridge ON.
Wow awesome Cambridge find! I wonder if Kitchener/Waterloo had CLM's or Mobil Directo's.
I have the archive records for Kitchener/Waterloo so I'll find them and double check the type of sirens they had for you.
Thanks Siren_Dude, that would be much appreciated!

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Tue Mar 10, 2015 5:41 pm

Archon wrote:This is the oldest Siren picture Circa 1915? A very old Federal and here is a surprise the "siren is still around" it is in the hands of a collector Will try to get a recording of it this summer From the Town of Lake VFD Department which is no more all anixed by Milwaukee by 1950. 2nd picture shows fire trucks not sure what year those fire trucks are from does someone know? I think 1915.

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This topic was yelling at me, my 6th sense was picking up a fire apparatus related post LOL. The apparatus pictured are a 1937 Mack A (or possibly an E) pumper and a 1924 Seagrave Suburbanite pumper, the Mack A model was changed in the early 1940's to a different design. This piece is interesting to me in that it has an enclosed cab, most of the fire apparatus of that era was open cab (IE: No roof). Thank you for sharing, I always love seeing antique fire apparatus!

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Tue Mar 10, 2015 7:50 pm

Crystal Lake VFD in Ellington CT circa 1947, with what looks like a Federal B on their roof. The building and the siren are no more as they now have a newer 8 bay station and had a WPS 2008 (with an ESC-864) until recently when it was removed.
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Thu Mar 12, 2015 9:34 pm

birds1337 wrote:What's up with the guy's face in the Darley factory?
Maybe someone stole his sandwich from the break room fridge. Who knows?

Here is one salvaged from my atlanta siren system thread. This is a postcard from the early '60s, you can see a Mobil-Directo on the far left. It is a gas powered one, which atlanta had several of until the 70s.

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Here is one from 1954, that if I recall correctly is from New York.
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And lastly, here is one from Memphis, Tennessee from about 1952 or 1953
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Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:14 pm

Brendan W wrote: Here is one salvaged from my atlanta siren system thread. This is a postcard from the early '60s, you can see a Mobil-Directo on the far left. It is a gas powered one, which atlanta had several of until the 70s.

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