[Milsurplus] Another Whats-it ??? - A bit off topic

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Right on John!  -   through any of these  discussions  it  brings a lot of 
ancillary knowledge to  the  surface.
Ed#
 
n a message dated 11/9/2012 8:40:10 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
w5jv at hotmail.com writes:

Thanks  to all for identifying this as part of the Gamewell fire alarm box 
with a  mechanism made by Peerless Mfg. Co.  My eyesight was not good enough 
to  see the trademarks so I asked.  I guess I should have googled first but 
 it was very enjoyable to learn so much about it from all the  input.


 
 
 
In a message dated 11/9/2012 9:04:51 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
w5jv at hotmail.com writes:


Thanks to all for identifying this as part of the Gamewell fire  alarm box 
with a mechanism made by Peerless Mfg. Co.  My eyesight was not  good enough 
to see the trademarks so I asked.  I guess I should have  googled first but 
it was very enjoyable to learn so much about it from all the  input.  This 
alarm came from my grandfathers service station in  Whitesboro, Texas after 
it was leveled for a nearby banks parking lot.   It's not ancient but is at 
least 1930's or earlier.  Grandpa Denton had  been editor of the Whitesboro 
newspaper until he was in an automobile accident  and lost his eyesight.  He 
then ran a service station which was 1/2 block  from his home and used the 
high visible glass type container pumps.  You  would turn a crank and the 
class container would fill to what ever level you  wanted.  He walked there 
every morning, usually by himself, and opened up  the station.  Customers 
would tell him when the gasoline was at the mark  they wanted and would show 
Grandpa where the g
as fill cap was on the new  cars.  My grandmother told me he could repair a 
tire, keep the cold drink  machine filled and had a counter inside where he 
displayed fuses, lamps,  bubble gum and the like.  Customer participation 
for gas and service by  the way was all on the honor system.  It was a 
different world than  today.  Anyway, the drive through at his station was paved 
with cola  bottle caps from years of people tossing the cap on the ground 
(not  paved).  As kids we used to try to see how many different bottle caps we  
could identify.  When we were little, we would swing around the fire  alarm 
box post until someone shoo'ed us away from the street.  Retired  friends 
or friends on their lunch hour would play dominoes on a small table in  front 
of the station.  Granpa was good at dominoes and had a memory sharp  as a 
tack.  This fire alarm mechanism must have been pulled from that  pole box at 
the stations front sidewalk before workers removed the  concrete/post 
assembly.  As kids, w
e wouldn't have had any idea what  was inside that red school house alarm 
box.  All to say, this brought  back great memories so thanks again.
By the way, his son (and my uncle) was  a radio ham which is where my 
interest began.  Uncle Ted was the first  radio ham in Whitesboro making all his 
equipment by hand.  His call was  5AFD and you can see pictures of what his 
1920's ham station looked like at  Albert Duponts web site who took over 
Uncle Ted's  call:
http://www.qsl.net/w5afd/5afd.html
73, John W5JV

From:  w5jv at hotmail.com
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net;  milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Another Whats-it ???
Date: Thu, 8  Nov 2012 20:16:45 -0600





Can anyone identify this  what's-it ?
At URL:  
http://www.w5jv.com/Unknown%20Device/