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Proper Gent
We knew these flag and relay alarm panels as Type 62. I am not sure if that was the correct name or just one used in the Telephone Rentals.
The call points (Gent Model 1102) had smash glass, they were supplied with little hammers which hung from them.
Most had missing hammers. However for test purposes we opened the door and pushed the button.
Many moons ago
Ring my bell
When I started out repairing fire alarms as a bench engineer the vast majority of the sounders were 8" and 6" bells or 8" or 5" yodalarm sounders.
Old and Grey
Mercury - Cable and Wireless
Where telephone rentals had buff panels for Abbey National. Red 2000 and 2000M panels I think likely from Simplex. And a cream case with brown inner door offering known as a FS3000.
Mercury went with re-badge Kentec panels in Mercury Grey and Blue (MCP3008) as pictured. They also had early addressable panles from Kentec and Morley. In addition to the first radio fire system from EMS.
Blick - Stanley
Along came Blick with fresh aspirations. In a ever changing world the technology evolves and this panel and its associated red pipework became more common.
Yet change is often only adopted when there is no other option. I remember fondly one site where all these technologies existed simultaneously. Sounders throughout the site were controlled by a old British Telecom relay synchronator which gave alert and evacuate signals to the required areas.
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About Broxie Tech
Broxie Tech was founded to provide a platform to host items and information relating to my career as a service engineer. While I studied City and Guilds 224 pt 2. I gained work as a bench engineer fixing clocking in machines, automatic alarm dialer, sounders and fire alarm panels.
Later as a field engineer work was fault finding and repairs of fire alarms, public address and voice announcement systems. To a lesser degree radio paging systems, CCTV systems, access control systems, nurse call systems.