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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Going right back to the events of 1955-57,=
if JH is=20
still awake, he should turn up the RW of May 9th 2003 with an article by AD=
H and=20
a letter from myself explaining what happened then both in bell casting and=
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artefacts at the Loughborough end. As for M&S, they acquired an excelle=
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tuning machine - which I think had previously been at Warner's before G&=
;J=20
obtained it. And they also obtained a very good bell tuner in the person of=
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late Wally Spraget.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As Richard says of casting to others' prof=
iles,=20
this sort of thing has been going on for a long time. Apart from the 3 doze=
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bells that JT & Co cast for G&J 1955-7, I recall a 17thC broken bel=
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which WBF recast in complete facsimile about 30 years ago, shape, lettering=
,=20
canons & all. And at JT's the other week there were the two trebles for=
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Lundy; if you didn't know otherwise, to look at them, you'd think that=
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Charles Carr Esq was still alive.</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">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A href=3D"mailto:richard@s..." title=3Drichard@s...>Richard Offen<=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Gil=
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& Johnston's 'successors'</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT><BR>--- In <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
.com</A>,=20
"jimhedgcock" <BR><<A=20
href=3D"mailto:jameshedgcock@h...">jameshedgcock@h...</A>> wrote:<BR>&=
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<BR>> With the demise of bell founding at Croydon, the first bells to =
be=20
<BR>> commissioned by G&J (Calgary?) were cast by Taylors. I=
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believe <BR>that <BR>> Taylors purchased G&J's equipment when the =
bell=20
founding side of <BR>the <BR>> firm was terminated. Why is it th=
en,=20
that the two trebles at Egham <BR>> and the later 'G&J profile' ri=
ngs=20
have come from Whitechapel?<BR><BR>Jim, do wake up please! We=
went=20
through all of this a few weeks ago.<BR><BR>The two trebles for Egham wer=
e=20
cast for G & J (Clock Makers) by <BR>Whitechapel and the new Whitecha=
pel=20
rings cast to G & J profiles are <BR>just what they say, bells cast w=
ith=20
similar design features (if <BR>that's the correct phrase!) to bells cast=
at=20
the Croydon Bell <BR>Foundry. In the same way, Eayre & Sm=
ith=20
had two bells cast to <BR>Joseph Hatch profiles when they augmented the f=
our=20
Hatch bells at <BR>Peasmarsh, Sussex a few years ago ( there are several =
other=20
examples <BR>of this sort of work).<BR><BR>R<BR><BR><BR><BR></TT><BR></BO=
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