[Oldest Panel]

Ok. Here goes. I was born in 1968 so I will give you my odest panel info. First control unt I ever installed was an A&G R52E keyswich split zone control unit. Then I moved onto a Castle CX1001. To this day, my favourite control unit was a Castle ZX1250 expandable control unit. When I left school I joined Chubb Alarms as an apprentice, working with Gordon Taylor in West London. At that time we were fitting Guardall CA 202 and CA 210 control units. That said, I used to work on CA 45, CA3, CA6 (bank control units - I was trained as a bank engineer ) CA5 and CA10 control unis with the odd CA100 and CA104. I don't that any of these panes still exist anywhere.. Comared with the A&G, Bon Autoation, Castle, Munford and White, Radiovisor Monive Panel (remember them?) and the Franken Systems panels all the Chubb panels were years ahead of there time. I had the most fantastic Training at Chubb Alarms and owe an awful lot to Godon Taylor, whom I am sill in regular contact with. He was a Burgot engineer. He taught me how to make tube and batten frames, lace wiring And how to foil windows using lead non self adhesive foil. Happy.....no Very Happy Days. Andy I remember the 'lock block and coffin' Rely-a-Bell control unis and the RG Grams (999 machines). We were fitting Internet directly line signalling years before the WWW had ever been invented. Over the years, I have been into loads of Central Stations. To my mid, the best Central Station I ever went to was at Clifton Street. It was over two floors, with a basement and ground floor.

I remember the Radiovisor Monive panels we used them up till 1982 when we sold the company to Landers. We replaced one around 2000 which was made of wood, so it was pre BS 4737 1971, could have been made the year you were born. I kept it until last year when I had to get rid of lot of unused stuff as I retired to Menorca and the villas here do not have lofts to store old junk.