• Building a model or reconstructing a full size emergency vehicle, or just a model? What are the different options available for light bars, sirens and radios for the year vehicle you are working on?

    I will mainly focus on equipment that is no longer manufactured or supported by it's builder and have also included non vehicle things like portable radios, accessories, and hard to find license plates.

  • Hi, My name is Dick Paul, I am a retired police officer, and in addition to those duties, I am a former Federal S&S dealer and have for the past 35 years installed/repaired/maintained radio communication systems, lights, lettering, etc on police and fire department vehicles including those of the Park Ridge, Rosemont, Harwood Heights, Schaumburg, Des Plaines and Evanston, Illinois departments.

    Prior to that I worked for Motorola service in the Chicago area and N.A.S. Glenview as a mobile radio tech,  and designed and installed Microwave systems for IDOT's Kennedy Expwy system.  In addition to communications, I am also specialize in the residential/commercial security alarm business. 

    I was also a member of APCO from 1967 to 1994, serving on the National Operating and Procedures committee. (APCO were the people who wrote the 10 codes and got the 911 number and decided that "car 49 from car 45" was better than saying "car 45 to car 49 ", all that stuff.)

    (Don't buy those 1956 model cars with "Dial 911" on the side, the number didn't exist then)

  • What I am trying to do here, make your equipment more authentic, for example, don't put an AeroDynic on a 1954 Ford. Also, I hope to be able to supply photos, parts lists and diagrams for those who have an older piece of equipment but no documentation and also provide a year when the equipment was first available. 
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