Rich M. said:
Skip,
You are right, the M light might be tough to find.
I guess I will target the Federal 044 for my next great find. For some reason, I like the flashing vintage lights a little morer than the revolving ones.
Perhaps it is more about the hunt.
R.
Well, you might call the Lubbock Fire Dept., it's an 806 area code. They have their own shop. Could be they may still have a couple of the old "M" lights around.....if, as I said, they got moved when the shop and administrative offices moved a few years ago. Flashing lights are just fine when done properly. A friend of mine who had a funeral home in Kermit, TX, had a '63 Buick station wagon amblance. It had a roofmounted siren with four Federal FS3 lights on top (two on each side of the siren) and a Federal 17 beacon in the rear. The FS3s, which were discontinued many years ago, were big 7 or 7 1/2" chromed single-faced red lights with 50 c.p. bulbs. Rather than using an alternating flashing, this one was set up with individual flashers on each light. Awesome flash pattern! When I worked at Rix Funeral Home in Odessa, our competitor, Chapel of the Roses, had done the same thing to their '59 Ford wagon. But instead of the FS3 lights, they used the DoRay lollipop lights: two on each side of the big Q siren, and a 17 in the rear. One time Chapel had gotten called first out on a traffic accident way out west. Two ambulances were needed and we got the second call. We actually caught up to them once we got on the highway. Our Pontiac wagon would outrun that Ford every time! Anway, my partner Bill was driving, and since Chapel was first out, we stayed behind them. Bill got momentarily "hypotized" by the funky flash pattern. Well, it did get our attention!!