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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Not true to say Taylors' records are "in a=
muddle"=20
- sorry if I gave Andrew the wrong impression - but all the recorded weight=
s for=20
the Wells bells in 1877 look like estimated weights rather than=20
exact.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>According to the records, the two old bell=
s from=20
Wells weighed 30-1-0 and 47-0-0 (recorded in this style). The new bells "af=
ter=20
tuning" are recorded as 32-0-0 and 56-1-14, both in the job books and on th=
e=20
invoice. This doesn't prove conclusively whether these are exact weig=
hts -=20
which happen to end in 0 and 14 - or approximates. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The scales at Loughborough could cope with=
bells of=20
up to (say) two tons by this date, so the ninth could be "exact" but I'm no=
t so=20
sure about big bells like Wells tenor (c.f. St.Pauls).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Ddjb122@y... href=3D"mailto:djb122@y...">DJ Bryant<=
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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, October 29, 2002 3:=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians]=20
Wells</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>They're ina Blackbourn of Salisbury frame, of 18=
91 I=20
think, with the<BR>treble above the 2nd. If I recall correctly, the heads=
tocks=20
are<BR>Whitechapel's mark II pattern - when did these come in?<BR><BR>It =
seems=20
surprising that there is an exact weight for the tenor but not<BR>the 9th=
,=20
particularly as the back two at St Paul's, cast in the following<BR>year,=
were=20
only weighed to the nearest half a hundredweight. Unless, of<BR>course, t=
he=20
exact weight was measured by Blackbourn or Whitechapel.<BR><BR>David<BR><=
BR>On=20
Tue, 29 Oct 2002, andrewmbull wrote:<BR><BR>> Presum=
ably=20
the canons were removed from the two trebles when they <BR>> were fitt=
ed=20
with iron headstocks, so the exact weights for these no <BR>> longer=20
obtain.<BR>> As to the 56-1-14 for the tenor, I have=
long=20
since suspected that <BR>> this is Taylors "guestimate" from 1877. Chr=
is=20
Pickford did try to <BR>> check this out, but Taylors records for the=
=20
period are in too much of <BR>> a muddle. Whitechapel told me that the=
y=20
rehung the tenor "between the <BR>> wars", but did not say whether the=
y=20
actually had it in the foundry <BR>> and weighed it. Whitechapel said =
that=20
the bells had never been tuned.<BR>> Anyone have any=
more=20
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