Vintage siren...

[patrol530]

This is on display at the Don Garlits museum of drag racing-

 

[MARSMAN]

These things were insane!

 

[CrownVic97]

Punch in Chrysler air raid siren on YouTube and tons of videos will pop up about it. Crazy invention for a siren that was!

 

[plybeep68]

What a Siren! and HEMI powered to boot!

 

[MEVS06]

I got a boner!!!!

 

[Skip Goulet]

These things were insane!

Not just insane, but loud as hell, too! If it's still there, there was one on top of the Chrysler Bldg. in Chicago. I'd hate to be in that place if it ever went off!


When I was in college at Texas Tech, there was a big old Federal Model 5 siren in one of the bell towers of the Administration Bldg. The only time we got to hear it was late in the summer of 1970...just after the the big May 11 tornado that did a "number" on Lubbock. The Tech siren was operated from the dispatch console at the Tech PD station. One night there was a funnel cloud reported, and the Tech dispatcher tripped the siren. Problem was....it ran for nearly two hours, 'cause no one knew how to shut the thing off! I lived a block from the Tech campus, on the 5th floor of a student housing complex. That thing rattled my windows. OUCH!


Someone should send a copy of this siren to the board at Air Raid Sirens. That bunch would like it.

 

[CrownVic97]

Not just insane, but loud as hell, too! If it's still there, there was one on top of the Chrysler Bldg. in Chicago. I'd hate to be in that place if it ever went off!

When I was in college at Texas Tech, there was a big old Federal Model 5 siren in one of the bell towers of the Administration Bldg. The only time we got to hear it was late in the summer of 1970...just after the the big May 11 tornado that did a "number" on Lubbock. The Tech siren was operated from the dispatch console at the Tech PD station. One night there was a funnel cloud reported, and the Tech dispatcher tripped the siren. Problem was....it ran for nearly two hours, 'cause no one knew how to shut the thing off! I lived a block from the Tech campus, on the 5th floor of a student housing complex. That thing rattled my windows. OUCH!


Someone should send a copy of this siren to the board at Air Raid Sirens. That bunch would like it.

Don't worry about doing that. There's tons of threads over there about this siren and then some.

 

[Skip Goulet]

Don't worry about doing that. There's tons of threads over there about this siren and then some.

That's good. I haven't been on their board in some time.

 

[Wailer]

It's a single tone air raid siren and the pitch is very low. I heard a demo of one on YouTube, and when the engine is all revved up it makes a 'wwoooooooo' kind of sound.

 

[Skip Goulet]

It's a single tone air raid siren and the pitch is very low. I heard a demo of one on YouTube, and when the engine is all revved up it makes a 'wwoooooooo' kind of sound.

I was looking at that engine. Makes you wonder which is loudest: the siren or the engine!

 

[PC Comms]

What a Siren! and HEMI powered to boot!

Not just ANY HEMI, but a REAL one... and the grandaddy of them all to boot. The infamous 426 CID.

 

[JennyCop]

Listen to the sound of it! Love the sound of the HEMI, the siren sounds so erie! its scary! but I like it!

 

[dmathieu]

COOL!

 

[Wailer]

Not just ANY HEMI, but a REAL one... and the grandaddy of them all to boot. The infamous 426 CID.

It's actually an earlier version of the hemi. The 426 came much later.