dated jan 29 1970
code is 7-2-1
found it at an antique shop, works fully
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Excellent find! The “FIRE” sticker on the very bottom of the front is quite unique (yes I know it likely didn’t come with the station when it was manufactured). It’s in very good shape for its age too! (also nice to see that it works fully as well)
Oh wow! Its the rare fire-lite rebranded version too!
That sticker is the fire-lite logo ( fire lite rebranded those pulls )
So it is: thought you were wrong at first as I’ve known nobody but Faraday to sell that coded pull station, but Google tells me that there are such versions. I think the only other place I’ve seen that particular Fire-Lite logo is on some of their bells (which might have also been rebranded).
i own the fire-lite version of this and have done a few demo videos of it. The model number is actually “BG-8” which is kinda funny…but you can see it printed on the top-left of the frame. I believe 10071 is the number for the backbox.
Really? Huh, neat.
That’s odd considering Fire-Lite released a much smaller & non-coded station with the same model number much later after Faraday released this station. You sure that’s what that number is/means though?
Weird if you ask me that they wouldn’t make the station’s & backbox’s model numbers similar for ease of ordering & such.
Yup, I pull out the new one and compare it to it in this one:
Yup, I’m sure. If you look at that frame in the same spot on the faraday version, it’ll say 10500, etc, instead.
And yep, that’s definitely the backbox model number, catalog confirmed! The faraday model numbers actually were similar, its 10500 / 10501 for the pulls, and 10070 / 10071 for the backboxes. Fire-lite just didn’t bother to re-brand the backbox:
Huh, well about that. Funny how Fire-Lite decided to call their own later station “BG-8” even though it has very little if anything to do with their rebrand of Faraday’s 10500/10501.
oh dang, i thought bg-8 was nomenclature for something unrelated, like the manufacturing plant or something. didnt know that was literally the model number of the pull station. neat