Those Gent sirens with the cooling fins are really rare, the only other one I've ever seen was a photo of one in a scrap yard from 1992.

very nice phil. we still have 4 of these in my town 2 have been used as tornado warnings for the last 6yrs and the other 2 are sitting idle waiting for more money to be repaired.

The sound of them actually relaxes me x_x;

Hi Bob Both the sirens were taken to bits and one motor needed some attention to the windings,and the cylindrical one was very rusty. The next thing is all the control panels that came with them. one rack of switches is authentic pre ww2 with the mercury time switch complete,and alert and raiders past switch still present. Apreciate your interest and will be sounding them again soon.

Wow, awesome. Those sirens are works of art.

man the sound of a dual tone sirens is awsome specially this 1

I love these old sirens! Far better than the current electronic/PA rubbish that is being offered.

It sounds like a car engine!

@gyula6516

7 жыл бұрын

Riley Munsie yeah an R8 for my opinion

@Roostertailin

6 жыл бұрын

HELL YAH BROTHER

@joeritchie7286

3 жыл бұрын

On an old racing game from the 80s

@Guyanese_goku2012

3 ай бұрын

It also second one sounds like a thunder bolt at 1:42

i love the sound of theses... I kinda wish i was around when they where in place.. I was hard for me to get my hands one of those... but i love it..

this siren sounds like it hit puberty

@MissWWE20

8 жыл бұрын

+Average Alien ROFL

Thanks for comments on resto. I do have a three phase supply but it is not portable and neither are the sirens realy,looking out to the US for one of those phase converters,they are a lot cheaper out there. As far as these sirens going up for sale,ifyou notice most sirens that are sold in this country now are castles or klaxons which were used to replace the carters after the war. There are only two examples left as far as i know,other than mine. cheers phil

They are so cool! The second one sounds like a F1 race car engine!

Those Sirens look Wonderfully Restored....especially with the Gray Housing,with the Rotor Painted Red.

Yes!!! Deffinatly do :-D and be sure to film it Its interesting actualy that they sound so diffrent... you have absolutly no idea how much i would love to have one of them :)

@HotTop202 The ports are the same 10:12 ratio, they are the same pitch, but the TONE is what's different. I think this could be due to the camera angle- there is a point between facing the end of the siren and the side of it where the sound goes quieter- you have to remember the noise is a mechanically generated noise, which works by sucking air into the end of the siren, and chopping it as it comes out of the side holes. Wind strength and direction can also greatly alter the loudness.

I remember 'siren spotting' as a kid (32 years ago) and wanting one of these. Then they all vanished! Have not seen one since (not that I still look for them though). Must be a HUGE stockpile of them somewhere in the UK. I did have a receiver box though that I err...found in a street cupboard as a child. WB1400. I was a terror when I was a kid.

Hi These sirens are from the original contract of 7000 made in 1938,and were positioned all over the UK up until 1991. Thanks phil

both these will run off the three phase electric system which is over 300 volts,we only have one around here now which goes off every friday,the other last remaining one was in a closed MOD depot,the siren is missing off its tower but all the control and supply is there and it was definatly 3 phase power,you have done a good job in restoration by the way

I live near Agusta Westland Helicopters in Somerset, England, where the Apache helicopter is built. They still have these sirens on site and on certain days they test them. They're also used for special occasions. It's a strange experience hearing these go off. It wasn't that many years ago that if you heard these it was probably time to spend your last 3 minutes saying goodbye to family and friends. Shame you don't have a power supply to run them on, but the drill seems to work quite well.

Sounds like a revving car engine! Love it!

You could drive around from district to district and see all types of sirens in place. The ones on the poles were nearly all carters and it sort of gave you shivers when they used to test them,as you could hear rise and fall notes from all over the place. Down the road to me someone hit the big green control box with a mk 3 cortina and the siren went of for 20 minutes.Exellent fun but not for the cortina.

ahh the memories, i remember watching this video over a year ago. Now i have managed to get two tiny Carters Sirens (12, or 24V, in mint condition) that was in the engine room of the old speed boats to the norwegian navy, gonna test them soon

Ha ha ha, I bet your neighbours loved you lol! ;-) Back in the Cold War days at 16:00 every Friday we'd have a siren test at RAF Wattisham, the sound of all the sirens around the base winding down together is still the eriest sound I've ever heard!

Hi Andrew Many thanks for your Appreciation. I tracked them down in a victorian fort in plymouth Devon. They had all there contoller switches with them aswell which was nice. The cylindrical one was rough and the fluted one faired better but they took three months to bring back to near factory condition. I will try and run them faster and post another one this time in black and white. ALL The Best phil

@laurenloukinen5425

3 жыл бұрын

Wow a fluted Gents that is rare!!!!!

Yes i had to let one of the carters go,for a more ambitious siren resto project.Dont worry its not a US siren It will be worth it if all goes to plan,Meanwhile i am in the process of wiring up my remaining carter to my newly aquired 3 phase generator. U Tube will be the first to hear (Hopefully) All the best Phil

EXCELLENT !! 5 stars ***** We have one of those at our firestation. Currently not working onfortunately.

Sounds like a race car awesome 👍

Very loud carrot choppers :D

@killer1479

9 жыл бұрын

good comment! :)

Hi Generally there is only a key way on on the shaft so soak with releasing agent for a couple of days and then using a dead blow hammer either hide or the plastic ones on the market now,hit the end of the shaft a few times and that generally shocks the rotor off.

Thanks for that i will give it a try with my mate who knows more than i do about electricity.

Nice sirens I'll take one

Sounds Awesome! Really Awesome!!

first one sounds sorta like a car! VROOM!!! VROOM!!! second one sounds like the siren in half life!

I wish I'd seen the auction in time. I'd love to own one of these and I'd probably have gone higher than that!

If my knowledge is correct, they were made from the 1950's to 1990. They usually have the blower assembly at the bottom of the pole and the horn at the top. They are of course rotational sirens.

From a victorian fort in plymouth. The curator had them stashed away for years when they were removed locally. He decided to sell them to fund other projects, so i did a 575 mile round trip to pick them up,with all the other kit. Didnt realise they weigh 312lbs each,so van ran on two wheels on way home. Regards phil

He has a mind of his own, he dont care what girls think.

i think ill try and get a hold on one of these it may help to wake me up in the morning lol

VERY COOL i want one!!!

lol nice one i bet everyones like, duck and cover!!!!!!!

How do those type of sirens work? I LOVE those LOUD sirens!!!

wow nice job it sounds real

So, the gap between the blades and the squared wholes in the plate was all that was needed for an air raid siren? So it's air getting compressed in those wholes and gaps?

I love the fat stator air-raid,tornado, or fire sirens

sounds like a '94 viper and a lambo

@IsoXable

8 жыл бұрын

hahh

British sirens were rotors and stators as in the clip Horns were mainly used by the USA. probably easier to purchase an American made siren,as they still use a lot more than we do and they do get put on Ebay.

hehe cool im goin to have to try that now:P

Thanks for that

did you not manage to restore the compressor defrosters or were they not fitted when you accuired them?

Very similar in sound to the carters. When the sirens were scrapped in 1991 only a very few survived,as there was no interest for them in those days. I was very lucky to find these but doubt if i could find anymore. Type in to you search engine NHP electrical engineering,and have a look at these.

Low quality in the video, High Quality in the sound. Nice.

that would make a great vegetable chopper

Now thats a UK siren! I havn't got the nerve to turn mine that fast.

Its an old princible that goes back to 1918 in the UK,But modern sirens are mainly electronic like police sirens.

in the city i live in, they still use the old ones from the 40s and 50s, veryday saturday at noon for testing

First one sounds like a V10...cool...

COoL NiCe !!!

Sometimes i feel like i need these mounted to my alarm clock :D

There are plenty of modern sirens that are electronic, sure, but then there are still plenty of modern sirens that are mechanical like this one, just because the mechanical ones typically have a better ability to create a piercing sound to deliver the more jolting alert signal.

lol! It sounds more like a big block chevy racing down the drag strip.

These look very similar to the blowers used in the old Thunderbolt sirens. They seem to put out good sound though.

The first one sounds cool. ^_^

sounds so epic

Ha ha they ought to make these the resistance units on gym exercise bikes!!

The Sounds likes a Nascar. Smile.

They resemble bench grinders quite a lot!

first one sounds sorta like a car! VROOM!!! VROOM!!!

Sounds like a Lamborghini xD

@FoxPopvli

10 жыл бұрын

It's true!!! xD

@santi-xj1qr

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah xD

i so need one of these to piss me nighbors off.

ahh Range power & Elevator/Escalator power, i see you could plug one of these into a 220v dryer outlet and it would work how about into the mains power going to an escalator, bet it would be really loud right there

one of these old air strike siren is used every day in my upper school for the first "ring"

nice siren aca en chile ocupamos de esas sirenas los bomeros cuando hay un incendio gigante y haci le avisamos a todos los bomeros para que acudan chao

ahh the magic of sound strikes again :D

Industrial ear defenders,and i could still feel the sound.

What would happen if you put your fingers in the holes as it was spinning? Would it make a different sound?

Cool

More people would probably die from watching this video with headphones than from the actual bomb.

Nice muscle car sound!

Nice

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD i can see u driving around in a little golf and having these big thingson and driving pepol nuts xD hahahahahahah i had a great laugh there xD

bet the neighbors love you

Thats what you said about the "fluted" one!

very nice

Interesting to hear the differences between the 2 sirens... But why does the Carter sound do much more tinny than the fluted one, which seems to be a fuller deeper sound? Also, that Carter- that's some strange noise at low speed- is that the brushes or bearings?

do u wear ear protection when using these?

The siren kinda sounds like a Viper V10!! xD

are these air driven or do they run on 12 volts the 12 volt ones you could maybe run with one of those jumpstart boxes i dunno, a town i lived in had these on their firetrucks i might be able to get one of those going using a jumpstart box

That could be what everybody would say. But these sirens are mainly used for bomb threats or nuclear threats. It does sound like a tornado siren tho.

Marvelous ww2 sirens. Connect them on an electric cable to test their engine please.

@stuartcoplan I have one left now which is the best one in my latest siren test.

Imagin hearing that in the night... O.O

that would shut the neighbours dog up, and i bet ya neighbours love u aswell 8-D

nice

Why did the second one still wind up when you removed the drill?

1:45 sounds like that alien in half life that shoots red stuff from its feet and has flamethrower hands

I'll bet your neighbors love you :)

They love it

yes it would....the sound of fingers being sliced off.....those rotors go way above 1000 RPM.....

I dunno about mass panic. Similar sirens are used for weather warnings across the US so it's hardly an unusual sound to hear, especially during the summer. If the weather is bad you take shelter and grab a radio.

It does, but it is really 10/12 port(please correct me if I'm wrong) which, in theory, makes it a 2t22. It sure does sound like one!