Windycity411
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Just started collecting Unity items in the last six months. I hope to add more in the future.
Unity collection
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Black Hoe
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I always loved the Unity Beacons. The local county PD used to run a Unity "Visibar" styled bar with twin 2 bulb beacons (not synched) using Red Spitfire domes which gave off a very distinct visual back in the 70's. The center of the bar had a Unity chrome plated speaker similar to a CP-25 and the siren unit was a Unitrol Model 800.
No Unity collection is complete without a SPITFIRE dome!!!
Windycity411
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I do have a red spitfire dome for the big beacons, but it isn't in the best shape. So I didn't show it in the pics.
You're a man after my own heart on that one, Pimp. When I worked at AID Ambulance in Lubbock we began using low top Suburbans in the early '70s built by the Gordon K. Allen Co. of Dallas, the parent company of the short-lived Modular Ambulance Corp. The low top Suburban used by AID were equipped with four red DoRay lollipops across front of the cab with a pair of CP25 speakers in between the lollipops powered by Federal Directors, and each had the larger PAR46 Unity Spitfire beacons. AID kept the Suburbans in service until the late '80s when the state started forcing us out of low top vehicles.
Big D
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That's a good start, Big D. Around here, Unity RV-25's were commonly found on DOT trucks, but that was during the 70's and 80's. Beginning in the 1990's, VDOT switched to strobes. VDOT seems to be using the Federal Target Tech Turbo Flash strobe bar these days. The RV-25's are all gone.
You ought to see some of the TXDOT trucks that I see on I20 all the time. They're using Code 3 LED bars with amber/blue LEDs. At a distance the amber can be mistaken for red and it looks like the DPS bars I've seen recently.