Alarms usually have three triggers
Anti-Tilt, Usually nothing more a mercury tilt switch or mechanical plum bob, if an old one, or some form of accelerometer or position switch, akin to the ones fitted to modern phones.
Volumetric, checks for changes in air pressure within the passenger compartment of the car.
Door/boot/bonnet opening. Used to be nothing more than using the door switch, but now incorporates voltage drops.
It was usually the vibration of concorde on the windows of cars, causing pressure changes within he car that fired that one off!
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