“Churchill Security” burglar alarm, Camden • Unlike yesterday’s Union Jack, this has an unambiguously WWII slant. Churchill is not an uncommon name – there’s the insurance company with the talking dog for instance – but even if Churchill is the surname of this firm’s owner, the addition of a waving national flag can’t help but evoke the legendary wartime Prime Minister, which is undoubtedly intentional. A Thatcher alarm similarly decorated wouldn’t summon up quite the same subliminal image, and as for Blair Security, the mind boggles… though it would be amusing to discover one. • Spotted: Betterton Street, Camden, London, WC2, England, 2002 • Politics: In the Labour constituency of Holborn and St Pancras
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Never knew this was a menvier I thought it was a CQR. Malgor used this box except a red strip strobe. Very 1990s box.
This is an old menvier alarm box also used by malgor (a brand by two brothers called malcom and gordon). I wonder if that wiring pipe is connected to that box (or something to do with it)m but it’s not because i’m always wrong.
Hi, thanks for explaining where that unusual name comes from!
Doubt it. alarm fitters can’t do 20mm galv tube. If you were pro enough to be able to stick a set in it then you would be pro enough to use a decent bell box.
All signs point to definitely not! Looks like it has been taken down in favour of a massive sign now.
Never knew Menvier did their own box too. Seems like most manufacturers have a ‘token’ offering for the uber completist, Scanny with the Eurobell, Castle with that house shaped thing, MDT/Avanti with the Armourgard (although that was good!). Honeywell still do the Reson8 and ‘that other one’ AFAIK.
It was made by CQR and called a integra