CICCA
| CICCA | |
 CICCA's logo. | |
| Names | Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale du Cycle et de l'Automobile
Compagnie Française des Cycle Mills Industrial and Commercial Cycle and Automobile Company
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| Headquarters | 135 Rue de Noisy-le-Sec in Les Lilas (possibly) |
| Founded | 1898? |
| Defunct | 1980s or 1990s |
| Products | Automobiles and automobile equipment
Signaling equipment
Outdoor warning sirens
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Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale du Cycle et de l'Automobile (CICCA) was a automobile brand from the mid/late 1800s. CICCA mainly built automobile equipment for quite a while up until the First World War, where they found a niche market for air raid sirens. Ever since that point, they made some of the highest quality french air raid sirens in existence. CICCA went defunct at a unknown date in the 80s-90s.
Known sirens
These are their easiest to spot and most common sirens, only one of these has variants, it being the "R3P", with a varying cage height, but otherwise they do not change.
"Mystery 8 port"
(Mystery 8 port is a nickname, we do not know the actual model of this siren, so people ended up calling it that.)
(WIP)
"R3P"
(R3P is a nickname, as the actual model name is unknown. "R3P" was written on the motor tag of one unit so many thought it was the name even though it isn't confirmed.)
The "R3P" was CICCA's most successful siren, and remains one of the most common in the entirety of France. The "R3P" has insane rotor tolerances leading to it being as loud as a normal French siren when reverse wired, and much louder than a normal siren wired correctly. The "R3P", like almost every French siren, consists of an 8-port rotor and stator cast with horn attachments tilted at 45°. The tilt is believed to project sound better. The "R3P" has a cylindrical mesh cage below the rotor functioning as both its stand and air intake. Some "R3P"s were equipped with dampers, but sadly not a single damper-equipped unit is known to work. These sirens use a 1.5kW (2 hp) 2850RPM three phase induction motor to spin the rotor. Some "R3P"s have shorter or longer cages than others for some reason, but nobody knows for sure why this is the case.
"Birotor"
(WIP)
PCT-1481
(WIP)
Miscellaneous sirens
CICCA also made other sirens, but these are insanely rare and usually look nothing alike. Because of that, these sirens will be categorized by towns which have them.
(WIP)