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Originally Posted by clayton21
Gentlemen & Ladies,
What is the bell needed or - I can see the parallel with a bicycle but surely your average steam tractor makes too much noise for such a bell to be heard / used as a warning (and you've got a whistle for that anyway) .....
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Andrew,
At the time of manufacture a whistle was not a legal form of audible warning. Consequently bells were often original fitment.
According to the erection sheet of my Marshall it was fitted with one. As I understand was the case with Chris's Foster. Very often a whistle was not fitted. There is no record of a whistle being fitted to my Marshall when manufactured.
I find that road users take no notice of whistles, probably because of historical frivolous use.