1920s-vintage siren -- Knippa TX
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member Benchmark Blasterz
N 29° 17.726 W 099° 38.291
14R E 438018 N 3240886
A 1920s-vintage old Sterling M-series (?) siren on top of the Volunteer fire department building in Knippa TX
Waymark Code: WMPHT9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member ChapterhouseInc
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This siren from the 1920s is still sounding the call for the volunteer firefighters in the tiny Uvalde County town of Knippa TX.

This is a one-rotor model. Out bnest efforts to indentify it on the Internet lead us to think that it may be a one-rotor Sterling Model M, sometimes called a Model N.

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