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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Just for the record, Warner's catalogue of 1911=20
gives:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>1st quarter: 3' =20
9" 1 ton 1=20
cwt &nb=
sp;=20
A</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>2nd quarter: 4' =20
0" 1 ton 6=20
cwt =
=20
G  =
;=20
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>3rd quarter: 4' =20
6" 1 ton 15 cwt 0 qr&=
nbsp;=20
6 lb F</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>4th quarter:=20
6' 0" &nbs=
p; 3=20
tons 17 cwt 3 qr 24 lb C</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Big Ben: 9' =20
5.1/2" 16 tons 11 cwt 2 qr 20 lb* =
=20
E</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>  =
;=20
7' 10.1/2" high</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>  =
;=20
9.5/8" =
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soundbow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>* Weight with clapper. The net weight was=20
15-18-1-22</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>"Those great tough Warner quarter chimes" as Chris Dalt=
on once=20
called them; the enconia of <EM>The Times </EM>and of the organist of=20
Westminster Abbey were still being printed over 50 years after the disaster=
of=20
the first Big Ben!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>For purely sentimental reasons I wouldn't want to lose =
the=20
raucous sound of the present bell; but I'd have loved to have heard the=20
original. I still have a suspicion that Denison had it flogged to deat=
h=20
(whatever he might have said in the Press re casting faults) because of the=
=20
possible difficulties in getting it up into the tower, although the shaft i=
s 11'=20
4" x 8' 2". Significantly the Mears bell is reduced to 9' 0" dia=
meter=20
and 7' 6" high. The two cracks don't go right through=
the=20
bell as I found when up there recently, the square "hole" (said to be to st=
op=20
the cracks speading, but originally made to provide samples for the litigio=
us=20
parties of 1859) being about 2" deep. I guess the present bell sounds=
now=20
much as it has always done.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Djohn.ketteringham@n...=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 22 April 2002 19:19</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Bell=20
Recordings</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Can anyone tell me the weight of the largest of the cl=
ock=20
chime bells of the<BR>Houses of Parliament (not Big Ben!) =20
Thanks<BR><BR>From : John Ketteringham of Lovely Lincoln in Lincolnshire,=
=20
England<BR><BR><A=20
href=3D"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.ketteringham">http://homepage.n=
tlworld.com/john.ketteringham</A><BR>Friends=20
of Lincoln Cathedral : <A=20
href=3D"http://www.eccentrix.com/misc/lincoln/">http://www.eccentrix.com/=
misc/lincoln/</A><BR>Bell=20
Recordings : <A=20
href=3D"http://www.eccentrix.com/personal/johnketteringham/">http://www.e=
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