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<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><SPAN class=3D079044109-09012003><FONT face=3DArial=20
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ze=3D2>As I=20
recall, Whitechapel headstocks aren't dated. The have 'Mears' or=20
'Whitechapel' on one side, and the first letter of the place name and the b=
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number of the other. Now that you mention it, I suppose there is a certain=
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similarity to Warner cast iron stocks, in that both have curved tops. As re=
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Liverpool, the job was interrupted by the war (that's why Great George was =
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by Taylor's - it wasn't possible to have a furnace in London in operation f=
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long enough to melt the metal due to restrictions), and the fittings of the=
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ringing bells are most likely to be post-war. Looking at it from another an=
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what's the latest example of the earlier Whitechapel stocks that anyone kno=
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of?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2>David</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>