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Didn't know that had them as separate structures. But after looking it up its pretty exact. Now all you have to do is get some drivers so they dont back into the fence

 

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Yea, where I am in jersey, the hose towers were all built into the buildings, even the older ones. This is just my experiance, and can differ in other parts of the country or even jersey.

 

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Village Hall, South Orange, NJ

Published on 11/02/16

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Can you see the hose tower? Sad part is this place is now a beer garden restaurant.

 

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Our new 1928ish fire house is pretty nice , this took the place of that one.

 

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Yea, they still use them. As for the bells, in the 1920s , they had air whistles, like on a train. Compressed air that filled large storage tanks. They then had a cog system that ran the system. You put a cog in that corasponded to how many and how long the whistle blew. This told you the area of the fire. The whistle was tested 2x a day and was wound up daily. I have no idea how it worked, just that it did. It was made by the gamewell compony.

 

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Something like this, but way more complex to activate it.

 

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I cant find a picture of the control pannel, if I remember I'll shoot a picture at work next week. Its atually really wild looking.

 

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I am not a modeler, but if you wanted take some stiring sticks, frame out the door smaller and then put the door in. Will just look like cool moulding.

 

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Looks perfect!

 

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Awning thread or twine? Not sure about the size.

 

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I was not aware of those horns. My hometown had a motorized siren that sat atop a tall pole just outside the fire station. Two blasts of it meant a fire somewhere in town, three blasts meant it was out in the county. It gave the volunteers some idea of where things were happening. They also blew it at noon every Mon-Sat.

You'll flip when you see the control mechanism. It was working 23? years ago, then the guy that fixed it retired. The compony said, he learned from his father, and his father from his. It was a mash up up, telegraph, low voltage or old phone wires hook to a cog box that gave the signals to release the air and blow the whistle. The main compresser was in the basement, and a line ran to the tower. There was 2 holding tanks in the tower. It was something to see and here.

 

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Just let it hang over the bar. Make the hose a bit longer. Bend it middleish, its never perfect.

 

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Ok , so here is the controll box for the whistle. The cogs got inserted into the mechanism and would blow diffrent signals. It was and still is a amazing machine.