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<DIV><FONT size=3D3>WBF headstocks and Liverpool</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D3>Alan Hughes told me a couple of years ago that his Gran=
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always admired the Warner headstock design but would not consider copying i=
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till after thier demise. As the Liverpool bells were cast=
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in 1938 - 39 could the headstocks date from that time. Is there a date=
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the headstocks?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Ian Johnson</DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Re:=
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<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Matthew wrote:<BR><BR>The two trebles at North Bradley=
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also fitted with the new pattern<BR>stock, <BR>they were cast in 1949 and=
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the following year. Maybe these were <BR>prototypes?<BR><BR>Hmm. The heav=
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at Hutton Cranswich (1947) all have the new pattern<BR>stocks. Surely the=
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wouldn't be using prototypes of a whole ring this<BR>early before the typ=
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introduced. Perhaps it was only the larger<BR>patterns they had to make i=
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1951. Another example I can think of is St<BR>George Colegate, Norwich, w=
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bells 4 and 6 have fabricated canon<BR>retainers and the others the mark =
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cast iron stocks. The installation<BR>is of=20
1950.<BR><BR>David<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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