VictorySiren.com™ - The Internet home of the Chrysler Air Raid Siren

<body> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=12 width=742 border=0 style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" bgcolor="#008000" height="100"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#CC3300" height="70"> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#CC3300"> <font face="Arial Black" size="6" color="#FFFFFF"><i>  </i>VictorySiren.com</font><table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="450"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial Black" color="#FFFFFF"> World's Largest & Loudest Siren . . . Ever !</font></td> <td> <p align="right"> <font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial"><b> <a href="http://www.victorysiren.com"><font color="#FFFFFF">www.victorysiren.com</font></a></b></font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </TABLE> <table id="AutoNumber1" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor="#111111" cellSpacing="6" cellPadding="2" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <FONT face=Arial,Helvetica size=-1> <td vAlign="top" width="80%"><b> <font size="4" color="#DD0000"><u> <a name="Welcome to VictorySiren.com" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none">Welcome to VictorySiren.com</a></FONT><a name="Welcome to VictorySiren.com" style="color: #dd0000; text-decoration: none"><FONT face=Arial>™</FONT></a><FONT face=Arial,Helvetica size=-1><br> </FONT> </u> </font></b> <FONT face=Arial,Helvetica size=-1> <font size="1" color="#FFFFFF">. </font> <font size="4" color="#DD0000"><b> <br> </b> </font><b> <i> <font size="3" color="#DD0000">A site dedicated to the Chrysler-Bell Victory Siren and the <br> Chrysler Air Raid Siren - The most powerful sirens ever built.</font></i></b></td> </FONT> </tr> </table> <table id="AutoNumber1" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor="#111111" cellSpacing="6" cellPadding="2" width="750" border="0"> <tr> <FONT face=Arial,Helvetica size=-1> <td vAlign="top" width="80%"> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/bigredwht.jpg" width="245" height="187"></p> <FONT face=Arial,Helvetica size=-1> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">What you see pictured above is a <b>Chrysler Air Raid Siren</b>, the most powerful siren in the world.  It's the size of a car, measuring near 12-feet in length and standing more than 6-feet tall.  It also weighs twice as much as today's typical car.  <a target="main" href="manual481/page-engine.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">This gigantic siren is powered by an 180-HP Chrysler Industrial V-8 HEMI® gasoline engine</font></a>.  The super-duty engine directly drives a three-stage compressor that blows 2,610 cubic feet of air a minute, at nearly 7 PSI, into a giant siren rotor.  The compressed air screams through the chopper and out through six giant horns with an exit velocity of 400 miles per hour.  <a target="main" href="howloud.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">The result is an incredibly loud 138 dB</font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> sound (measured 100 feet from the siren)</font></a>.  <a target="main" href="coverage.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">The loudness of this siren is unmatched by any other warning device ever sold, ever</font></a>.  It's also considerably louder than the largest steam whistle or horn.  As if that were not dramatic enough, the whole unit, engine and all, slowly rotates one and one-half times a minute on its iron turntable base.  </font> </p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:xx-small; font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> <a target="main" href="articles/HW10/HW10.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font color="#CC3300">The  <b>Chrysler Air Raid Siren</b> is so powerful that it can start fires with just the sound vibrations it produces</font></a>.  It can turn fog into rain, clearing the sky.  <a target="main" href="coverage.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">It can produce an effective 70 dB air raid signal for a distance of two miles, and under proper conditions can be heard 30 to 50 miles away</font></a>. <a target="main" href="Ads/AC-sep1953-sm.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300"> Its advertised range was four miles in every direction</font></a>.  That's a long way.  </font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <a target="main" href="specs/s-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="2MANUAL2.JPG" alt="Operating Suggestions and Maintenance Manual" width="127" height="168"></a><br> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">[ <a target="main" href="specs/s-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">More Specifications</font></a> ]</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <a target="main" href="Ads/ads.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="TJUL1953.JPG" alt="CLICK HERE to see Vintage Chrysler Siren Advertisements" width="118" height="168"></a><br> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">[ <a target="main" href="Ads/ads.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">Advertisements</font></a> ]<br>  </font></font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> <a target="main" href="articles/SNL42/SNL42.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font color="#CC3300">The sirens Chrysler built were invented by Bell Telephone Laboratories during World War II</font></a>.  Three different production models of this siren design were made by Chrysler between 1942 and 1957.  The Cold War model was the loudest and was built only in the five years ending in 1957.    </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">A few hundred of these monstrous Cold War sirens were produced and sold during the 1950's.  Many remained in service for twenty plus years, sounding only for routine tests.  Most people who lived in major metropolitan areas during the 1950's and 60's will remember the siren tests.   Those particularly, who lived in or near Los Angeles, Seattle, Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, New York and even Miami could hear the haunting siren wail of a <b>Chrysler Air Raid Siren</b>.  </font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <a target="main" href="wav/sound.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="chrlogo.jpg" width="168" height="118"></a><br> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">[ </font> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000080"> <a target="main" href="wav/sound.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">Hear a Chrysler Air Raid Siren</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> ]</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <a target="main" href="photo-pages/cars2/cars-photos.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="THBDET2.JPG" alt="CLICK HERE to see More Chrysler Siren Photographs" width="168" height="100"></a><br> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">[ </font> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000080"> <a target="main" href="photo-pages/cars2/cars-photos.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000080">Photographs</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> ]</font></font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">Because of the extreme sound power emitted by these sirens and the desire that their coverage area be extended as far as possible, they were usually mounted high on a steel tower or on top of multi-story building.  As a result these sirens were always heard, but rarely seen.  <a target="main" href="instructions.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">For most of the visitors to this website, this will be the first opportunity they have ever had to see the siren that prompted "Duck and Cover" drills</font></a>. <br>  </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">This website was created on March 8, 2003, to collect and share information about one of the most interesting sirens ever produced.  <a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300"> The driving force behind this website was the purchase of a <b>Chrysler Air Raid Siren</b> by David Stall of Texas</font></a>.  <a target="main" href="tour/tour.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#CC3300">Mr. Stall intends to see that his siren, dubbed the </font> <b> <font color="#CC3300">VictorySiren</font></b></a><b><font color="#CC3300">™</font></b></font><a target="main" href="tour/tour.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">, is fully and faithfully restored for a traveling public display</font></a><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">.  <br>  </font></font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#CC3300"> <a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="TVS.JPG" alt="CLICK HERE to Learn More About the VictorySiren" width="168" height="126"></a><br> [ <a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font color="#000080">The VictorySiren</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"><b><font color="#000080">™</font></b></font><font size="2" color="#CC3300"><a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080"> Story</font></a> ]</font></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <a target="main" href="hist/h-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <img border="0" src="duckandcover.jpg" alt="CLICK HERE to Learn More About The Chrysler Siren History" width="160" height="121"></a><br> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">[ </font> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000080"> <a target="main" href="hist/h-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">More History of the Siren</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> ]</font></font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">In the short time that this website, <b>VictorySiren.com<font color="#CC3300">™</font></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">, has been online, the public response has been tremendous.  It appears that Mr. Stall is not alone in his fascination with the world's most powerful siren.  </font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> <td width="50%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">After only a month Mr. Stall acquired his second <b>Chrysler Air Raid Siren</b>.  This second siren arrived in somewhat working condition from Burbank, California on April 16, 2003.  It was promptly dubbed <b>BigRed<font color="#CC3300">™</font></b><font size="-1" color="#CC3300">.  Mr. Stall plans to paint the siren to match it's name and factory color, restore this siren to good working condition and send it out to air shows where it can participate in WWII reenactments.  </font> </font></p> </td> <td width="50%"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">  <a href="hist/h-br-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; 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font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300">David Stall</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"> </font><font face="Arial" size="2"> <a href="mailto:david@victorysiren.com?subject=VictorySiren" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"> <font color="#CC3300" face="Arial"> <img border="0" src="images/envelope2.gif" width="25" height="12"></font></a></font><font face="Arial"><font color="#CC3300" size="2"><br> </font><b><font size="2" color="#CC3300">VictorySiren.com</font></b></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"><b><font color="#CC3300">™</font></b></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#DD0000"> [ <a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: none"><font color="#000080">The VictorySiren</font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC3300"><b><font color="#000080">™</font></b></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="#DD0000"><a target="main" href="hist/h-vs-cars.htm" style="color: #dd0000; 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