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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Taylors used job numbers (on the headstock=
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frame castings) and pattern numbers (cast on the bells - initially inside, =
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David says, and later outside on the crown). It is only much more recently =
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the 1960s or 1970s) that bells begin to carry both job numbers and pattern=
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numbers on the crown.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The job numbers will certainly give an ind=
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of the chronology.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I happen to have dates for some of the job=
s that=20
have been mentioned, having looked at the chronology when researching Taylo=
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frame designs for <EM>Bellframes</EM>. The "completion dates" recorde=
d in=20
the record generally refer to the date the bells were dedicated or, in some=
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cases presumably, when the bellhangers left the site. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Stockton on Forest - [n=
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noted]</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Ewerby - May 1896</FONT=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Norton - 24 Dec.=20
1896</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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