"tapzz" (tapzz)
06/10/2015 at 09:32 • Filed to: stentophone, whistle tips, swift
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"tapzz" (tapzz)
06/10/2015 at 09:32 • Filed to: stentophone, whistle tips, swift | 1
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Well before Bubb Rubb and Lil’ Sis annoyed their neighbours in aughts Oakland, Edwardian motorists in Britain had Stentophone Whistles to aggrieve their fellow citizens.
Unlike their modern Californian descendants, the neighbours in Olde Scotland need not have feared the constant noise, as the brass original was cable operated: you have to pull a string to get the noise.
Can’t say I’ve managed to find much out about the Stentophone Company and their products other than that those whistles are !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and that they were already an !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The mention in that coronation rally article suggests that people already used them to pimp their Renaults in 1911.
This particular example was attached to an utterly charming 10 hp Swift tourer from 1914.
(Photo credits: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , CC0)
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Bubb Rubb and his whistle tips
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> tapzz
06/10/2015 at 09:36 |
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Woo woo, chaps.
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tapzz
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/10/2015 at 09:38 |
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Good show, give the woo woo some welly, old boy.
Berang
> tapzz
06/10/2015 at 09:58 |
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American relative, the Aeromore:
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tapzz
> Berang
06/10/2015 at 10:04 |
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Splendid!
TxBrumski
> tapzz
06/10/2015 at 11:14 |
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Found an old article here saying that they were used as “warning signals”, like a car horn. Now I know where R. Kelly got the inspiration for his remix to Ignition...
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tapzz
> TxBrumski
06/10/2015 at 11:22 |
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That makes sense- it might have been the “country” horn to the “city” rubber ball horn that the Swift also had.
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TxBrumski
> tapzz
06/10/2015 at 12:13 |
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I love the idea of someone saying, “Ah, he’s just some city slicker.” “How d’ya know that?” “Take a look at his buggy right ‘chyer. He’s got one of them fancy ‘city horns’ that don’t whistle...”
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tapzz
> TxBrumski
06/10/2015 at 13:14 |
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Heh. Many early cars were visibly motorised country buggies...