CHIEFOPS said:Watching 2nd season episode 1, Molloy and Reed do a show & tell at a local school, Reed explains to the kids that the siren on their '69 Belvedere can be operated by a driver's foot switch, an option I never knew LAPD used.
CHIEFOPS said:Watching 2nd season episode 1, Molloy and Reed do a show & tell at a local school, Reed explains to the kids that the siren on their '69 Belvedere can be operated by a driver's foot switch, an option I never knew LAPD used.
Mndlm said:I saw that episode as well on AntennaTV. Also I noticed that the can lights have lower mounting bracket on them, real close to the roof. When they air the later epsiodes with the Matadors the can lights are a bit higher of the roof.
Anyone know if LAPD could operate the rear ambers only on those Trio's? Never recall a episode where they did.
And on AntennaTV they also air "Emergency" a week or so ago they were assigned to a large forest fire and a night scene they turned on the clear aircraft light atop of the TwinSonic. Believe that was the only episode I saw them actually using it.
Then they show chrome and black framed TwinSonics also.
Like the LASO cars in "Emergency" also.
50theman said:
Mndlm said:I saw that episode as well on AntennaTV. Also I noticed that the can lights have lower mounting bracket on them, real close to the roof. When they air the later epsiodes with the Matadors the can lights are a bit higher of the roof.
Anyone know if LAPD could operate the rear ambers only on those Trio's? Never recall a episode where they did.
And on AntennaTV they also air "Emergency" a week or so ago they were assigned to a large forest fire and a night scene they turned on the clear aircraft light atop of the TwinSonic. Believe that was the only episode I saw them actually using it.
Then they show chrome and black framed TwinSonics also.
Like the LASO cars in "Emergency" also.
CHIEFOPS said:IIRC, that light on top of the lightbar was so LACOFD helicopters could identify a paramedic rescue squad from other units that used the same type of vehicle such as non-paramedic rescue squads, brush patrol units, apparatus repair vehicles, etc.
CHIEFOPS said:As I understand it, down was ambers only, up was reds and ambers, but they never seemed to show amber only mode.
Skip Goulet said:Those switch panels were installed to make the cars LAPD-correct. Except for the switch that powered the T2 lights, nothing else was ever used. When watching the original episodes of Adam-12, I never realized then that the siren sounds were "canned". But when I began watching "Emergency!" on a regular, that became obvious....especially when you'd see Squad 51 running with a Q sound, or the second Engine 51 which had a Q, running with the sound of the Interceptor. Another interesting mixup from the studios was the occasonal insertion of a hi-lo sound which came from an actual hi-lo horn recording, not from an electronic siren. In those days the hi-lo sound was not legal in California....only wail (or manual) and yelp.
Sarge619 said:Skip, please correct me if I'm wrong (which wouldn't be a stretch), but I remember hearing from somewhere (someone in firefighting but I can't for the life of me remember who) that the "high-low" horn sounds were not supposed to represent any electronically-produced sound, but were actual two-tone air horns supposedly being tested for effectiveness in traffic clearing by LACoFD. It was probably misinformation, but that had been passed onto me many moons ago when I brought up the same points you did. Maybe someone with a good grasp of LACoFD info could clarify this.
patrol530 said:I'm sure the reference was for the first episodes older Mopar, which had a mechanical siren, thus a foot switch for the relay would of been standard.
patrol530 said:I'm sure the reference was for the first episodes older Mopar, which had a mechanical siren, thus a foot switch for the relay would of been standard.
chief1565 said:That foot switch was mentioned in an epasoide when they went to the school has "Officer Bob" and it was mentioned to the kids that they could use their foot to activate it.
chief1565 said:I took this off the tv while watching Adam-12.
Thought you might like it if somebody is doing a restore job.
If the picture isn't clear enough can try and get a better on.
Skip Goulet said:Per Kevin O'Connell at B&M, the "mechancial sirens" shown on the older Adam-12 episodes were mock-ups. They used actual siren housing and front ends and rotors, but there was no motor. Kevin says they did a lot of that, not only for TV but for the movies. Like the episodes where the cars had the Interceptors, any siren sounds were dubbed in.
Sarge619 said:There were no black-framed TwinSonics. It was the exact same bar with black gaffers tape applied to the chrome/stainless areas to reduce glare and reflection from the filming lights.
Maxim2Eng said:I think he was referring to the aluminum sub frame--on the first generation of TwinSonics, they were painted black. Later, they were un-painted, bare aluminum. My first mod12, while working for the local FS distributor/installer, had the black frame.