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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Re: headstocks with stay sockets.</FONT></=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>JT & Co told me that L&J's stocks =
<EM>look=20
</EM>similar but have design differences; Warner's rather more so.</FONT></=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As to M&S iron stocks of the 1920's, t=
he two=20
former trebles at Canterbury (1923) and the two stocks (now replaced) suppl=
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with the trebles at St Mark, Swindon. Westminster Abbey old 1-4 (1919). The=
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design of course quite different to Taylors. Graveney, Kent (1925) have=20
side-fitting stays. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Does Exeter tenor new stock (WBF) have a s=
ocketed=20
stay, or have they moved the radius slide, or replaced it conventionally=20
?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The 8 steel headstocks (WBF 1969/74) at St=
Alphege,=20
Whitstable, have stay sockets, and I believe that several of the light ring=
s=20
they turned out at about the time are similarly equipped.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The Gillett 'Loughborough' type stock attr=
acted=20
disapprobation from JT, which led (so I understand) to its discontinuance a=
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Croydon. But they kept the stay sockets.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Re: [Bell Historians]=
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<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>> Socketted stays: JT & Co didn't have the mono=
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of everything.<BR><BR>> Llewellins & James on their CI=20
stocks.<BR><BR>They're pretty much copies of Taylor stocks!<BR><BR>> M=
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on many of theirs until the 30's<BR><BR>Can you give any examples? Certai=
nly,=20
those I've seen have been bolted to<BR>the side - e.g. the 12 at Taunton,=
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