Attack warning siren control box

Found underground in a building used during WW2.
Is this what it appears to be? It doesn't look old enough...

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The keyswitches on the panel are definitely post WWII.

This is a WWII type. Also here - post 24

Just wondered why these devices are known as keyswitches, as no key was ever required. :confused:

Graham

Thanks, that's pretty much what I suspected as it just looked too modern and well preserved.
So it's presumably from later cold war use? I couldn't imagine any other application for it.

PNK;38391 wrote:

I assume the "Attack Warning" was internal to the bunker complex and not to the local air raid warning system.
I thought most post war air raid system were controlled by the local police station.
Thats something you don't hear these days, an air raid/flood warning siren

It's in a building that was part of a much larger military complex, so yes it would have been internal to the site rather than part of the centralised early warning network.
That said, the switches appear similar if not identical to some on the WB1400 Handel components, it possibly indicates that the equipment was concurrent with even if not part of the same system?

We apparently still have flood warning sirens around some parts of the coast near here, not spotted one lately though. I remember seeing on as a child whilst on holiday at Heacham, and mistaking it for an air raid siren! Quite worrying for me at the time.

I remember the old air raid siren mounted on top of the Library in Ware. It was used to call the firemen to the Fire Station in an emergency. You could hear that in Hertford some days!
I would love to hear that again, although it has probably been removed.

used to be a siren on the roof of the town hall in Grantham during the 70's

There's one on the roof of Boughton House that's used as the fire alarm, the theory being that it can be heard at Kettering Fire Station the other side of town.

The siren gets tested at 10am every monday.......

TTFN,
PB

No eBay APP ID défined in Kunena configurationThis week, I have mostly been looking at.... Sirens.

Here's an unusual EBay listing for an entire siren power supply and control panel:


Note the supply for heaters, as discussed in another thread:
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