Gregory C. Korner DSr.

Now that's some interesting facts about the fire engines using exhaust whistles to augment their sirens. By the way , I agree with you, I'm 80 , and if it ain't older than me it's not an antique. I'll post some pictures of my 1905 Lincoln Doctors Carriage Built in Greensburg , Indiana. If anybody knows of another one around let me know. I have to replace the original builders plate because my dumb brother took it off and he doesn't know what happened to it. I put an all leather top on it and new goat skin leather seat. Took me all summer to completely restore it.

Well , that does not match all the answers I'm getting about these whistles, some of which are 35 inches long. I think it can be mounted anywhere , like under the car next to the frame, lots of room there. I can make it work with a 5HP rated SHOP VAC , so I'm sure a 1935 6 cilinder truck will do the job. That is what my brother is going to put it on.

I use a home brew penetrating solution which will do the job better than anything on the commercial market. Mix 50-50 acetone and automatic transmission fluid. I have not been disappointed with the results , EVER1

Hello Lump, Glad to meet you. Does your 5 tube whistle have any manufactures markings on it, this one I have has none. So I'm not sure what company made it. I have the factory made cut out valve for it also. The longest tube (19-1/4") had a 2 inch long split in it from some past mishap and I made a sleeve out of a copper tube and soldered it over the split. I hooked it up to the exhaust on my SHOP VAC and it sounds great. In my original post I was questioning whether or not it is a steam or a automobile exhaust whistle. I think it is the latter due to the large size of the porting. I'm attaching a photo of my 1928 Ford replica built by the guy in the picture Wes Brummett. He has built 9 of these cars, this is number 8. They are I would say 3/4 full size. He builds the wholle car, sheet metal body, box frame, Mustang front end , Vovvo rear end , Buick steering column. I have a spare on it with a cover that says" ONE PIECE AT A TIME" It weighs 2100 pounds and has a vortec v-6 4.3 cubic engine with a 650 CFM Edlebrock carb on it. It has a chev 350 3 speed automatic trans mission. It will do a wheely in first gear. He just sold the last of these cars which was a little truck and now he is making a Shelby Cobra. Greg

I think that it will work. I hooked it up to the exhaust off my 4 cylinder 1957 Case "300" tractor and it works, not like it would on steam , but it works. The biggest problem with using the engine exhaust is the notse the engine makes overcomes the sound of the whistle at high RPM. Also you get the pulses of the cylinders firing . I think the design of the openings indicate it is for engine exhaust. I f you check out Fulton's web site , there are a lot of these whistles for sale. Someone out there will have the answer to the question of whether this is a steam or exhaust whistle.

This is my brothers car whistle which he insists is a steam whistle, I say it is for automobile exhaust. There are no makings of any kind on the whistle. So it is not a Fulton whistle but it has the lever activated butterfly which goes tn the exhaust pipe to control the exhaust. It has a cast brass base with 5) 1 inch diameter silver plated brass tubes, respectively 19-3/4 ", 14-1/4" , 11-3/8" , 9-1/4" , 7-1/4" long .The picture should have been rotated to see the full length of the whistle. I have an 1-1/2 scale that I designed and scratch built , starting in 1964 and had her running by 1969. Her name is "JENNY" after my late wife. She has a boiler which operates at 120 PSI and weighs about 415 pounds , engine and tender. She is fired with coal and I've had 5 cars with 20 people behind her, no problem pulling. Now I have built every piece of the engine by hand and I know a little more aboutsteam than my hard headed brother so I say this whistle he has is not a steam whistle it is for a automobile exhaust, The opening for steam is usually about 15 thousandths and not large v shaped openings like this whistle has. If any of you folks out there are familiar with this kind of whistle, save me some work and send me back the scoop. My brothers wants me to remake the inserts in the base of the whistle and I refused to waste my time trying to fix something that isn't broke! Respectfully submitted, Gregory C. Korner Sr. lookoutmntrr@hughes.net