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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Sorry, I gave wrong information =
in my=20
last message. The 'two cast Iron stretchers' were fitted, by Gr=
oves,=20
to the <STRONG>frame</STRONG> at Bromham, and not to the head-stocks and wh=
eels,=20
as I wrote.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The wooden frame, for six bells, as b=
uilt in=20
1875, had no exterior top frame to pits five and six as there was not enoug=
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room. Cast iron stretchers being so much thinner, were fitted in 1925=
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tighten up the frame.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As I wrote, metal rods were fitted to stre=
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the wheels, but I suppose these are called tie-bars.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dennis Powney.</FONT></DIV>
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