The Siren Board

(I've been active a lot, haven't I ) I remember hearing that ACA Cyclones were sent to England. It was on an old ACA ad.
Does anyone know they might have gone to?

Have never heard of this. The only regularly used sirens here are for Broardmoor Psychiatric Hospital and that's it I believe.

Chem_Boffin_6589 wrote:Have never heard of this. The only regularly used sirens here are for Broardmoor Psychiatric Hospital and that's it I believe.

Here it is:

I used waybackmachine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010411040 ... yclone.htm

(Plus I live in England )

The UK may have purchased these, but I wouldn't be shocked if these went to one of their protectorate/outlying islands somewhere in Asia/South Pacific.

A little off topic, but I have an old HOR ad that implies that they were distributed to England...

Chicagosiren-hunters wrote:A little off topic, but I have an old HOR ad that implies that they were distributed to England...

I wonder where they went?

I don't think there is any sort of documentation available to do with these sirens because the Ministry of Defense (MoD) still hold most of the files to do with them, and almost all of the country's sirens have been taken down and either sold, given to local war museums, or even, scrapped. Sad...
Also, I think the HOR ad says: "Look at the sirens England use. Look at so many lives it has saved... Why don't we design a similar siren to theirs!"

Chem_Boffin_6589 wrote:I don't think there is any sort of documentation available to do with these sirens because the Ministry of Defense (MoD) still hold most of the files to do with them, and almost all of the country's sirens have been taken down and either sold, given to local war museums, or even, scrapped. Sad...
Also, I think the HOR ad says: "Look at the sirens England use. Look at so many lives it has saved... Why don't we design a similar siren to theirs!"

Even better, why don't we just purchase some? The floods a couple years back is a good enough reason to get some, i'd say.
I know here we still use some carters for flood sirens, but they're getting old and will probably end up breaking soon.
I'd say a few mods would do the trick (that will probably never happen though)

That's where the advantage comes in. You see, we used aluminium to build our sirens, and not steel since it corrodes. Aluminium blemishes, but doesn't usually have fatal (to the metal) corrosion; that's why they are still operating today 70-80 years on from production.
Anyway, Klaxon Signals still make them and more powerful counterparts to the original unit, so councils don't need to seek out potentially expensive repairs.

Wherever the cyclones went, they weren't CD sirens, the british government had a contract with castle castings and all sirens installed after WW2 were castle castings. They may have been experimental, but i have a feeling that they went to industrial plants or something similar.