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The Thunderer, or Official referee whistle

The Thunderer, or Official referee whistle
£12.00
Ex Tax: £10.00
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hudson sought to replace the sticks and handkerchiefs football referees had used to that point for officiating matches. Whilst the police whistle required a sound that would carry, the Thunderer needed to attract the players attention over the noise of both the game and the crowd. The solution was the famous 'pea', which produced a fuller warbling sound. Still in use today, the effectiveness of this design is demonstrated from Wembley to the Maracana, Ellis Park to Murrayfield.
Official referee whistle. Following on from its cousin the Metropolitan, and a year younger being born in 1884, the Thunderer came about as Joseph Hudson sought to replace the sticks and handkerchiefs football referees had used to that point for officiating matches. Whilst the police whistle required a sound that would carry, the Thunderer needed to attract the players attention over the noise of both the game and the crowd. The solution was the famous 'pea', which produced a fuller warbling sound. Still in use today, the effectiveness of this design is demonstrated from Wembley to the Maracana, Ellis Park to Murrayfield.

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Brand: Small items
The authentic British police whistle, introduced in 1883 as a replacement to the unsurprisingly ineffective police rattles. The discordant 2 tone soun..
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Ex Tax:£12.92
Brand: Small items
The original Admiralty Boatswain’s pipe or call (it should never called a whistle) made to an Acme design of 1870, and still used by navies worldwide ..
£34.50
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Brand: Small items
A nickel silver traditional English shepherd’s lip whistle, used for the training and control of sheepdogs. This can take a little practice to make a ..
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Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibratin..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Small items
The original Acme ‘silent’ dog whistle engineered to produce a fully adjustable range of frequencies between 5400 Hz and 14800 Hz, the lower audible, ..
£36.50
Ex Tax:£30.42