Flood sirens sounding in Hebden Bridge just before the river flooded into town. No serious damage done on this occasion as the rain stopped just as the river burst its banks , Thank God!
I wonder if the people who designed these sirens back in the pre-WW2 years knew that they would become legendary as producing the scariest siren tone ever. This sound can make a person's heart stop!
That’s why Hollywood loves Carter Sirens so much… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Oa9z2Ks6Czk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kWqFMCTySDY.html Since they were once used during The Blitz, they give off a sense of dread greater than that of any American-made siren… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p3rP3htV0zc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xUR9CxKIeJI.html …and all because any disaster or war-related scene is practically soulless without them… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UST5akVirog.html
@@kirankumar9434 The first link is a commonly reused audio clip of A Federal Signal STH-10. Not around in WW2, but the second one sounded like a Gents or Carter siren
@@kirankumar9434 that first siren is a single tone vertical carter with a few mail box CLM sirens and on the 2nd vid they could be gents or carter sirens
@@kirankumar9434 the last vid is a bunch of synthed cold war 2T22s on 50 HZ as I can hear the lower major 3rd that are made to sound like British cold war or air raid sirens because fed 2T22s have a harsher sound than the british sirens because they have horns to project sound from the choppers. The only american sirens that are more scary are the mighty ACA ASC P50/135 and the ASC TEMPEST and the bigest sentry siren built today.
These are SECOMAK X cold war sirens. But now a new NON AIR RAID KLAXON GP12 has been put up and taken over flood warning duty from the older SECOMAK GP8 in hebden bridge and it also sounds the attack signal but in a newer style because the motor is more powerful so it ramps up quicker and ramps down abit more faster
@@bonnieharris3701 Like the Brits stole everything else from the rest of the world to put in the "British" Museum? Sit down you twat, you can't "steal" a warning system.
I used to live in Bradford from the 1980s to the 1990s which isn't too far from hebden Bridge. Being an 1980s child I wasn't aware of nuclear war until I was about 4 years old (a little early I know) but then again I did stumble on my dad watching the legendary bbc threads. Dad educated me about it all even though the rest of the family weren't so keen but I firmly believe it is a pretty important issue considering the world we live in right now.
Just image being a bobby walking along a street at night during the blitz and suddenly hearing these going off ... probably would almost have a heart attack
Remember this day 😂 I was on the train going home from my party with BFF (we went to the cinema and Chinese buffet in Halifax) and we had to stop the train and start walking home in floods xD Best bday party ever 😂
Is it possible that after WW2 we have this sound genetically built into our brains and associate it with fear or warning. Such a scary noise, makes the hairs on my neck stand up.
That is exactly because the sirens ARE WW2 sirens. These sound like Carter 1H's. They are dual tone though I dont know the ports, They sound a lot like Klaxon CS8s (Broadmoor sirens) and probably still activate over copper wire just like the Klaxon CS8s. Old USA WW2 Sirens usually also activated over telephone wire, however some sirens like Thunderbolt 1000s, 1000Ts, and 1003s did have the option to be active over radio.
The majority, if not all, of these sirens are Cold War repurposed. They make the same sound but are more modern so less likely to break. One or two appear tohave been replaced with newer sirens of the same type in recent years, looking at Google Street View.
Advance to the flood shelters NOW this is a WARNING RED WARNING RED WARNING RED WARNING RED. FLOOD ATTACK FLOOD ATTACK FLOOD ATTACK SEEK HIGH GROUND NOW REPEAT SEEK HIGH GROUND NOW 😀
Not quite! This system comprises of Secomak GP8s, a Klaxon GP12 and a GP10 if I remember correctly. The GP8 is a CS8 with no shutters so you’re on the right track.
These are 415 volt electric sirens running on three-phase supply at 2850rpm. They are most likely Secomak sirens as these were still manufactured up to the late 1960s. The two British WW2 siren makers were Gents and Carter. In the 1950s many sirens were produced by Castle Castings. The most common make was Secomak. For me, the Gents product was head and shoulders above the rest.