When was electric motor horn marketed?
The first ELECTRIC MOTOR HORN manufactured in Britain was the Wagner Electric Motor Horn, produced by United Motor Industries Ltd at Sherburne Works, Coventry, and advertised for sale for the first time in The Motor for 28 August 1906. According to the company’s own sales literature, the horn was an instantaneous success. ‘It has taken the Town by storm’, they announced jubilantly in September. `Sales are positively embarrassing’. The Autocar, in a test report published the same month, said that the Wagner Horn could be heard at a distance of 800 yd, compared with the 400-500 yd range of an ordinary bulb horn. Among the earliest users were Cecil Edge and S.F. Edge, who had electric horns fitted to their Napier cars.
