Motorola Beacons?

[Pimp]

Anyone know anything about Motorola Command-O-Lert beacons?





Value, rarity, What kind of cross-bars they were used on?

 

[dmathieu]

Burt, you wouldn't happen to have a picture, would you?


Dan

 

[Pimp]

[Broken External Image]:http://bullmanure.com/command-o-lert_1.JPG





Is one style...





And these are the ones in question:

 

[crescentstar69]

Wow. I thought I had seen most vintage beacons, but that is a first. Want to sell one loose? (without bar)

 

[Spanky]

Th FD I started with used to have a ford van with a set of those on it. It alos had a Motorola siren and speaker that had a sound you wouldn't mistake for any other vehicle.

 

[dustymedic]

Think Signal Stat or Dietz made them for Moto....

 

[Pimp]

I don't own any of these. The red ones are just a result of a Google Images search and the blue one is on govdeals.com





Dusty, I think you might be correct.

 

[crescentstar69]

I've got a Motorola electronic siren. Sounds funky, kinda like a wounded bird!

 

[MIKET2]

Damn! I guess who ever that belongs to didn't give a hoot-in-hell about those lights, man what


a shame not knowing about the value of treating those.

 

[dmathieu]

The smaller blue lights look like they could have been mfg. by Northern Signal, or North American.


Dan

 

[Wailer]

The only vintage Motorola electronic siren I've seen and heard is the T1300A. The wail tone sounds somewhat like a mechanical siren, but the wail cycle is too fast to simulate the mechanical tone.


[Broken External Image]:http://lesliee.sasktelwebsite.net/motorola.jpg

 

[crescentstar69]

Yep, that's like mine!

 

[stansdds]

The quad light bar looks like a pair of Signal Stat 374 beacons mounted on a dual cross bar.


The blue ones look a lot like North American 250 beacons and a pair of universal turn signals (Dietz, Grote, Signal Stat) mounted on a Signal Stat or Dietz bar.

 

[cmb56]

Motorola sold Signal-Stat beacons as Command-O-Lert in the '70s.


I have a NOS Motorola ST 1117 Command-O-Lert which is originally a Signal-Stat 370.


The other is a North American Signal 250. The light head is of the early tube type.


The SAE approval number indicate that it from the '60s and before Motorola started so sell Signal-Stat.

 

[Stendec]

Odd - Every Motorola training film I saw in the 70's and early 80's started with a Federal Beacon Ray in the background behind the credits.

 

[cmb56]

Regarding the bar with the NAS 250's, the bar look like a Signal-Stat bar due to the shape of the mounting feets.


Dietz have never had a bar with that type of feets.

 

[dustymedic]

Odd - Every Motorola training film I saw in the 70's and early 80's started with a Federal Beacon Ray in the background behind the credits.

I remember those, & the Miami PD lieutenant with the wide side burns..

 

[MPD 818]

Well who got them? Anyone on here?

 

[crescentstar69]

I tried, but that pile went for $97 bucks and I couldn't go any higher. If anyone here won the bid, I want 1 beacon!

 

[Pimp]

Just noticed one on eBay if anyone is interested...

 

[dmathieu]

I saw that. It looks like a Northern Signal Co., or a Norht American Signal co., rebadged.


Dan

 

[Clarence H]

I was going to buy these parts, but I'm low on cash.


Clarence


I think the 2 beam beacons use a stratolite dome.


http://www.elightbars.org/forums/showthread.php?9680-Vintage-lights-amp-parts-Motorola-SVP-TwinSonic-Mars-AeroDynic

 

[Clarence H]

Just checked. The person selling it on ebay is the same member that posted them here.


Clarence