I recently won a Fire King catalog binder from the early '80s off of eBay. Fire King (not related to the glassware people) was a major FA distributor in the NY state area.
Here’s a snippet of the seller’s description:
The Catalog features all kinds of FA stuff, from panels, to smoke detectors and alarms, some pulls and NAs, door release magnets and others.
- Auth versions of BRK system smokes. I never knew the top model existed,
I’ve seen the one on the bottom at the Mark Twain historic home ca. 1985 or so. WANTED, either version.
As for the “real” 4050-80s, I know Simplex designed and patented them, but Faraday manufactured them, along with the 2903 plates along with many other Simplex products until the 1990s…
Faraday’s light plate kinda reminds me of the Standard ones as well, due to the flush-mount design.
I think Gamewell rebranded those light plates too; I saw them on a former Gamewell system from 1971 (with SpectrAlerts crudely slapped onto them) and at least one had a Bliss/Gamewell logo on the bottom. I do know Gamewell also rebranded Faraday’s bells and chimes at the time (and probably the Faraday Vibratone knock-offs, a.k.a. the 4050 and 4051.)