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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Scarborough frame was NOT hacked by Gillet=
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1952. They rehung the treble & second in new pits created out of =
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second pit & left the old treble pit in situ. I saw it in 1969. It went=
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1979 (see RW 2.11.1979 p.944).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>GAD</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Ddjb122@y... href=3D"mailto:djb122@y...">David Brya=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:03=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Re:=
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Wrangle</DIV>
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size=3D2>Nope - it ain't. The frame for the two great exhibition bells (n=
ow 3/10=20
and 10/10 at Scarborough) had cast iron sides. I'm not sure about the fra=
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for the other bells, but the frame was hacked about and the top tier=20
(containing 3/10) was removed by Gilletts in the 50s. We have some pictur=
es of=20
the work in progress in the YMSCR scrap books - I'll have a look thi=
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evening if I remember. Incidentally, Jennings' bell fittings book states =
that=20
at least one of the exhibition bells was cast with a flat top and had a c=
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iron stock. We've got a picture of the tenor being lowered, and it clearl=
y has=20
canons (removed by G&J, I believe). Don't know about the 3rd, but it =
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more likely that if either was cast without canons it would be the b=
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one, as was common Taylor practice in the later=20
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