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Old 10-10-2020, 09:26 AM   #20
F-ONE
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Default Re: 1949 Ford State Police car

1949 was a long long time ago. It was a different world.

I dare say most "police cars" were standard sedans. Some of the police cars from that era may not have had a radio. If they did it was a receiver. There would be "radio cars" with a transmitter that could call the receiver cars.

In larger cities it was common for the central dispatch to call out to the receiver cars. Patrol cars in larger cities without transmitters could call in on the police telephone boxes. Rural patrolman would call in on telephones.

As the 50s progressed it was more and more common for police vehicles to get transmitters. This mainly due to the advances in mobile radio communications in WWII and the availability of WWII surplus.

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