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Title: SA Police Vehicles Post by: Martin on December 08, 2009, 01:26:28 PM Scanned from a poor quality image. I suspect from the readable number plates that the photo may have been taken towards the end of 1958
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/lewis1411/Police2.jpg) Title: Re: SA Police Vehicles Post by: NosFEratu on December 08, 2009, 01:53:06 PM A number of years ago there was a display of old photos in Adelaide Arcade - lo and behold one of the photos was of a black FE Police car with a massive siren attached to it. I've searched the internet ever since and haven't been able to locate it - I even sent an e-mail to the SA Police Historical Society as they don't even have it on their web-page (no luck though). It's probably locked away in archives somewhere! :)
Title: Re: SA Police Vehicles Post by: Martin on December 11, 2009, 01:58:17 AM Kathy, I joined St John Ambulance in 1964 as a volunteer - we had EJs and EHs - and then rejoined after National Service in 1968 (HRs). They all had thumping great chrome sirens bolted to the roof, operated by a 2nd dip-switch on the trans tunnel. To get the siren to wail, the driver had to operate the dip-switch: on-off-on-off-on-off. That was OK until you hit the wrong dip-switch under the canopy at the Royal Adelaide Hospital - scared the daylights out of everybody ;D
I think the cops had similar sirens. Martin |