Good Finds From Old Catalogs

[dmathieu]

Mounted under beacon

 

[dmathieu]

Strobe light

 

[dmathieu]

Stationary

 

[Skip Goulet]

Stationary

Haven't seen one of those in many years. I used to see a lot of the 'M' lights and Federal's 044 DynoRay lights, but only one or two of these, which I think were built by or marketed by Trippe.

 

[Skip Goulet]

Did Darley offer a Federal Pulsator siren in any of their catalogs? What about Chas Greenblatts?

I may be mistaken, but I don't think that the P-series Pulsators came out until 1966 or '67.

 

[Henry455]

I may be mistaken, but I don't think that the P-series Pulsators came out until 1966 or '67.

Skip, not sure when the Pulsator was introduced but its in the 1963 catalog and shown as "new".

 

[DalmatProd]

i remember back in the 60's when my step father would get the J.C. Whitney catalog in the mail and the first section I always looked up was the "Lights" section. Then building my '69 Jo-han Furies.

I did the exact same thing. Somehow, my parents info was "forwarded" and wound up on the JC Whitney database. When they tossed, I grabbed! They always had lots of rotating and/or flashing lights. It was too that bad I had an early firefighter's dreams but a 10 year-old's wallet!


Steve

 

[Night Patrolman]

i remember back in the 60's when my step father would get the J.C. Whitney catalog in the mail and the first section I always looked up was the "Lights" section. Then building my '69 Jo-han Furies.

Are you sure you don't mean '68? I've never seen any model kits of the Fuselage-era cars, but it would be nice to have one.

 

[Sarge619]

Are you sure you don't mean '68? I've never seen any model kits of the Fuselage-era cars, but it would be nice to have one.

You're correct.... the Jo-Han kit was a 1968 Fury. There has never been a "commercially produced" (i.e. Revell, Monogram, AMT, IMC, Jo-Han, etc.) kit of the "fuselage-bodied" 4 door Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge pillared hard-top sedans either in civilian or police trim. Believe me, if there had been, I would've been making models of THIS (1969 Plymouth Fury I, Mass. State Police):

 

[Skip Goulet]

I've got a Darley Fire Catalog. But it is undated.
I think it's a 1975 catalog. Cause there are a bunch of 1776-1976 themed badges and things in it.


Any of those catalogs you got have any Civil Defense Sirens in it? My Fire Catalog does.

Darley has always featured the big sirens in their catalogs. You'd notice that they are all labelled as Darley Champions, but Darley never built them. Some were made by Alertor and some by Federal, but the ones they have now are all built by Sentry Sirens in Colorado.

 

[Skip Goulet]

Skip, not sure when the Pulsator was introduced but its in the 1963 catalog and shown as "new".

That's cool, Tim. I used to see the Federal catalogs when visiting my friend who worked in the city's parts dept. Didn't realize the Pulsators were quite that old. I used to see them on NYPD cars on TV and the movies, but didn't think they went that far back.

 

[hyperjohnny]

1960s Charles Greenblatt police equipment catalog #165
Do-Ray lights

Dan,


I have an amber unit like the one in the bottom picture along the page crease-the double-sided "lollipop" light, in the hammertone grey finish. It's NOS. What's THAT thing worth? THAT I'd be willing to sell... The lens is pretty cool as the outer ring has a reflector around the outside like a barricade light.

 

[CHIEFOPS]

That's cool, Tim. I used to see the Federal catalogs when visiting my friend who worked in the city's parts dept. Didn't realize the Pulsators were quite that old. I used to see them on NYPD cars on TV and the movies, but didn't think they went that far back.

1963(?) to 1972

 

[Skip Goulet]

Dan,
I have an amber unit like the one in the bottom picture along the page crease-the double-sided "lollipop" light, in the hammertone grey finish. It's NOS. What's THAT thing worth? THAT I'd be willing to sell... The lens is pretty cool as the outer ring has a reflector around the outside like a barricade light.

Whose lollipop light is it? With the hammertone finish, it sounds like an early DoRay. Their later models with the chrome finish and reflex lenses sold for about $30 before they went out of business.

 

[John211]

I may be mistaken, but I don't think that the P-series Pulsators came out until 1966 or '67.

I believe they were installed on the 1964 Plymouth RMP's

 

[NPS Ranger]

According to Bruno's website, the P660 chrome roof mounted version was used on RMP's from 1964-1972. An underhood Pulsator version of the 28 (model P280) was used on unmarked cars in 1963. NYPD trivia. By the way, the author of the 9 year old posting you replied to above, has sadly passed away.