Brass siren on wooden stand

This lovely piece of apparatus is mounted on a removable polished, hardwood stand and comprises a small air-chest at bottom with an oblique-perforated rotor and worm drive above. When air from a bellows is forced into the bottom, it blows out from a series of oblique 20 holes in the top of the air chest. These holes coincide with others in the rotor and cause it to rotate at high velocity, emiting and very loud wailing sound. By sliding the headgear to one side causes the worm on the rotor to engagewith a pinion which in turn drives the needles on the dials to revolve, indicating the speed of rotation.24 cm high