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 Too cool.

 

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That is cool! I remember the air raid sirens in London being tested when I was a kid. I don't know if there are any functional sirens anymore. They would come in handy for Tornado alerts.

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We had a siren on the top of the High School I went to. It was there from as far back as I can remember into the 70's. That thing terrified me everytime it went off.

They have recently installed similar sirens around the Nuclear Power plants in Ontario to warn of a Nuclear emergency.

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This is for 69 belair. The Bluesmobile used a CLM industries air raid siren for a loud speaker. CLM was a Toronto company that supplied air raid sirens throughout Canada.

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thanks ray. i still remember those sirens going off when we lived in downsview back in the '60s.

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Ya, it was a fairly regular occurrance to test them, at least 3 or 4 times a year when I was a kid. Never thought of them as a collector item but as a relic of the Cold War I suspect there must be guys collecting them like we do cars.

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69Laurentian wrote:

That is cool! I remember the air raid sirens in London being tested when I was a kid. I don't know if there are any functional sirens anymore. They would come in handy for Tornado alerts.


        There must be some "big block chev" sirens, sitting in a warehouse, somewhere...biggrin



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Thanks for that it pretty cool

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I found this on youtube, TORONRO AIR RAID SIRENS. It was made recently so these things are still around on roof tops and towers. It is current so they don't run in the movie.

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Wouldn't it make sense to keep these sirens maintained and operational? Like I said earlier, they were be a great early warning system for Tornadoes.


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It's a good idea Todd but that would mean some level of government would have to take charge of them. I suppose it would be Environment Canada. Can you imagine the red tape, not to mention the taxes !!!!!

Maybe they could use them to warn us of snow falls in excess of 15 cm....the thing would be going off every othe d ay this season!

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We had one of those here at south end of town till about 1985.why it took so long to come down I don't know.

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