WWII Carter Air Raid Siren

theres still one where i live on a telephone pole it probably dont work any more but it would be good to it go off.

Good 

Peyjay I mean

Peek any it's like. 250 I think

He starts at 1.25

would make a good fire horn

That was actually kinda nice to listen to.

I used to have three of these, but somebody really must have liked them enough to scale a wall, and take all three to seemingly borrow, long term.  As in forever.  I never got them back.  They also took some telephone signal receivers that were used to receive the alert signals in a cold war.

However, having lived near a dockyard as I was growing up, I heard its sirens blaring out every lunch and home time as a signal for the workers, so grew used to them. 

Incoming Junkers! JK, this thing is whacko!

How many decibels is that?

I was going to skip to the siren but Otis Redding kept me around.

How about if you pit horn on the side of the holes where the chopper turns and turned it on the side where the horns will point in each direction and put it on top of a telephone pole.

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The sound of doom. As a child of the 70s/80s I grew up knowing full well what these things were for and can well recall as a kid seeing them on poles or atop police stations.

Having been in close proximity to a couple running at full pelt in later years I can confirm that they are VERY loud..

It's 10 holes on one and 12 on the other in case anyone is wondering

These things scare the fuck out of me

made popular in WW2 but spent a far longer period of time on standby all the way up till 1992, all over the uk, controlled by British telecom and could be activated by the police or civil defence, (several thousand at the same time)  not easy to ignore..there was an incident in 1986 in Edinburgh where the sirens were accidently  activated at 6am one morning leaving the population petrified for several minutes.

I need one for the neighbors.

Hell yeah!!

I love that sound, everyone loves that sound, I don't understand why... Cos for a long time it signified death... Maybe all humans are secretly dark and morbid inside? Who cares, sounded sucking sick!

ONE OF THE MOST BADASS NOISES OF THE 20TH CENTURY!

Hi Duprebs. Nice vid. I'm currently restoring a 1936 Carter myself. Currently all in bits and being blasted, primed and painted. Can't get over the size and weight compared to my Castle. But most of it seems to be in the Brooks Motor!!!!. I was planning to restore and sell but don't think I'll be able to bear to part with it!! Not many about i don't think? you still got yours? Cheers, Paul.

Just subtract 3400 RPM by 20% of 3400 and u get the answer. 10hz difference in AC voltage hertz is 20% RPM difference for 3300-3600 RPM motors. Just luv that sound!

I kind of want one. You know just in case lol

AWESOME noise!

How many holes are on each side? I need to know because I'm making one

How many holes are on each side? I need to know because I'm making one

Sounds like a plane at low speed

Wow

The germans ! The germans ! wait... Am i german ?

Like in il-2 sturmovik

Magic *_*

Correct until late 60's upto about 72 in this area when they went to pagers, problem was that responding Firemen would be held up because traffic did not give way has they used to do when the Siren went because they knew there would be certain vehicles moving fast towards the station, guess Lifeboat men have the same trouble now when they are alerted by pagers

That would explain why I can remember one being on Brixhams fire station when I was a child. Not there anymore

awsome machinery

shephard's tones, i love thee!

Later used to alert Retained firemen to the station, in cities it WAS for Air Raid Warning , but anyone living in a Village or Town would hear this every week for a test oe when their local Fire Station was being alerted for a Fire.

this shit i use when i need to do a test i didnt learned

One of these is sounded once a month or so in my town (Dover) and it never fails to give me goose bumps!

The Germans are coming!

Beautiful, simply beautiful

1:30

am i the only one who thinks its going "FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" i mean given its for air raids it seems reasonable ¬_¬ id be doing the same....

i like it how it just powers dooooowwwwwnnn...

the sound creeps me out O-o

I got one on my 1949 chevy

yeah, i actually did

Did you put your finger inside it while it was operating?! oO

I'm waiting for you ... in our special place, in Silent Hill.

just cut half of my finger on a bitch like that