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<DIV class=RTE>So did many late C19 bellhangers, even in the days of timber headstocks. Once cast iron headstocks came into use, the canons pretty much always went when rehanging bells. Canon retaining headstocks only came into use later, although interestingly the earliest cast iron headstock (Crediton tenor) was designed to retain the canons (it was pretty much an iron copy of a timber stock, although it does have integral gudgeons sealed in with lead), and Moore, Holmes and Mackenzie used canon retaining headstocks at Surlingham. These were not simply copies of timber stocks, but a forerunner of the modern hoop-type canon retaner.</DIV>
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