1985:
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Wow, these are fantastic! Thanks for taking the time to scan and share them.
It’s particularly fascinating to learn about certain obscure brands featured in those ads. For instance, I had never heard of the California Fire Tech Omega VII (1981) or Robertshaw FMS 1000 (1983-1984). I even discovered products of which I had no knowledge—such as the Edwards 5800 (1986)—despite the fact that they were manufactured by well-known companies.
It’s also interesting to see how these now-dated products were marketed when they were new; I’m always surprised to see which features manufacturers highlighted in their ads. The retro graphic design and cheesy slogans/catchphrases and jokes used on these ads just add to the fun.
That Kidde KDR-5000 from 1982 is something else. This is the only time I’ve seen an ad for a fire alarm system tout orthopaedic chairs as a feature. 
If you come across any other interesting ads, I’d love to see them here.
Those are some incredible finds, to say the least. The yellow Gamewell panels are among my favorite of the whole bunch due to their eye-catching color.
Von Duprin’s products really caught my attention because until seeing their brochure, I associated them with door hardware. The Audibell, in particular, is a device I’ve seen at Livonia’s Carl Sandburg Library, but it may have been branded by another manufacturer.
Lastly, I found it unique that the Stopper II was originally developed in my home state of Michigan. I had never seen a Stopper that old in print or in person.
1991 (These will be the last scans for a bit; my library goes up to 1995 but those ads aren’t too terribly interesting):
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It’s cool to see how hard they had to push advertising back in the 80s. I never considered this as an installer, like seriously if I was a fairly new alarm company how would I decide which model panel to put in as our bread and butter? They all mostly do the same thing, but they all have their quirks and shortcomings. How does the alarm company decide what our standard set of products that we’d put in are?
The brochures are cool. I had to screenshot a few because there were so cool
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Speaking old fire panels. are there any videos of a notifier sas 200 in action
Here are some old brochures. While most of them aren’t fire alarms/panels and more so, pa, nurse call, and speakers. there are some fire alarms.
i know the dates are a bit scattered
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I have never seen a Rauland tc console that has the display in that spot before.
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These are very interesting. I think it would be interesting to see if companies still made brochures like these. Is there a trade magazine for Fire detection and protection? I mean one that is still being published today.
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Same. i wish “some” of these panels were still around.
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Knowing the US, some might still be. Even in Canada, I found out some schools still had single stroke fire bells and 6500 panels just a year or two ago.
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Yep: it’s up to us to then find & save/preserve them.
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Yeah I wish I knew about that GTA school, they tore it down like a year ago.