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022005>As you=20
will see from the attached, John Hyden has strong feelings as to why the we=
ight=20
recorded should remain at 3-2-27.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN class=3D471491817-26=
022005>He has=20
a strong argument here I believe.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN class=3D471491817-26=
022005>Peter=20
Humphreys</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=3DOutlookMessageHeader lang=3Den-us dir=3Dltr align=3Dleft><FONT=
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size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Johyden@a...=20
[mailto:Johyden@a...] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 26 February 2005 16:51<BR><B>To:<=
/B>=20
pfh@w...<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: FW: [Bell Historians] Woodchurc=
h=20
(Obita dicta...)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT lan=
g=3D0=20
face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=3D"10">Dear=20
Peter,<BR>  =
; =20
Just a couple of further comments. More as a matter of common-sense t=
han=20
as someone who has been trained to examine historical evidence, I think I w=
ould=20
place far greater value on the '3-3-27' for the following reason.<BR><BR>It=
was=20
written inside the bell. It is at least likely that the inscription's=
=20
placement there was more immediate to its weighing than the weight given on=
a=20
card which arrived towards the year-end of 1971, some six months later.=20
<BR><BR>Shortly after the new ring was installed at Sheffield Cathedral, an=
d at=20
almost the same time as the Woodchurch installation, I remember asking one =
of=20
the Whitechapel tuners about the Sheffield Tenor's recorded weight which ha=
d=20
appeared in the RW. This was given as thirty-four hundredweight and=20
<B><U>seven-and-a-half</B></U> pounds. (The 1976 edition of Dove also=
gave=20
this seemingly very accurate weight - although the current edition does=20
not.) The answer may be relevant here, especially as it relates to th=
e=20
weighing equipment in use by Whitechapel at the time in which you are=20
interested.<BR><BR>The answer was to this effect: whilst the calibration of=
the=20
Whitechapel weighing equipment could be read to the nearest half-pound, its=
=20
accuracy was limited to about two pounds on either side of the weight indic=
ated=20
by the scale. ie. The 3-3-27 at Woodchurch, though it may well be more=20
trustworthy than the other weight, needs to be understood in the context of=
such=20
a=20
limitation.<BR> =
&nb=
sp; =
=20
John<BR><BR></FONT><BR><PRE>
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