What kind of horns used to be on the old Dressers. They looked like a horn sticking straight out forward from behind or under the air cleaner or on the other side of the engine sometimes. I'm thinking of Pan Heads and Shovel Heads. Were they air horns or electric or what?



The horn I am speaking of is right under her ... front foot.

 

Here is another pic

 

wired air horn

 

sorry, heres the left side showing the air box? dont know what the components are called but the horn is a "trumpet horn"

 

IMHO that's what they should be making now. They look cool - - or should that be kewl?

 

That takes me back to my panhead days

 

Electric horn. The yellow bike is a 1956 like I had. The red bike is a 1967 I put air horns under the right saddlebag, and the blue one is 1965 like I had. It probably was the first year of the cowbell horn. Not sure.

 

goodbirds is right about the horn being electric I had a 53 and a 60 that had that horn.
the electric part was on the left side and the trumpet came around to the right between
the cyclinders.

Leon

 

It was a loud horn for a electric horn I would like to have one for my 06 ultra

 

I'm sure that the EPA standards for horns is keeping loud horns off bikes now a days.