A Spanish siren

[Daniel]

This is a very rare video, because as far as I can tell, Spain has no national siren system in place, and they are not commonly used by fire departments as in other countries like neighboring Portugal or France. This siren dates from the Spanish civil war of the late 1930's.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Yzg1gdwsA

[GreenblottF]

This is a very rare video, because as far as I can tell, Spain has no national siren system in place, and they are not commonly used by fire departments as in other countries like neighboring Portugal or France. This siren dates from the Spanish civil war of the late 1930's.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Yzg1gdwsA

Sounds like an STL-10.

And to be honest, I thought it would play some upbeat Spanish salsa music

[Daniel]

Salsa is Latin Caribbean music. Something like flamenco would be more common in traditional Spanish music.

[MattDean1003]

Square horns. Wonder who made it? And it does sound like an STL10.

[orestis]

It looks pretty small. I bet the motor is up to 2 kW considering also the siren age.

[gaterboy]

That siren looks like a Toshiba. Toshiba had square horned sirens.

[clm 10 12]

That siren looks like a Toshiba. Toshiba had square horned sirens.

I have never seen a Toshiba siren with square horns.

[Daniel]

I doubt the Spanish were buying Japanese sirens in the 30's. It is was probably the local variation of the typical French design.