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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=Optima><span style='font-size:
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too.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Andrew Cairns<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 17 October 2009
9:03 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [<st1:City w:st="on">Bell</st1:City>
Historians] Re: Levels of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City>
Production</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistorians@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</st1:PersonName> [mailto:<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">bellhistori<wbr>ans@yahoogroups.<wbr>com</st1:PersonName>] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>John H Allen<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 17 October 2009 13:55<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [<st1:City w:st="on">Bell</st1:City>
Historians] Re: Levels of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bell</st1:place></st1:City>
Production</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>And tonnage must mean profitably and viability.<O></O></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><O></O>From memory, and I stand to be corrected, I can think of
only 2 ‘heavy’ new rings over the past 5 years – Cambridge
GSM 24cwt and Writtle 31cwt.<O></O></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:
bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> <ST1><st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</ST1></st1:PersonName>
[mailto:<ST1><st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</ST1></st1:PersonName>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Pickford<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday 17 October 2009
13:37<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <ST1><st1:PersonName w:st="on">bellhistorians@<wbr>yahoogroups.<wbr>com</ST1></st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [<ST1><st1:City
w:st="on">Bell</ST1></st1:City> Historians] Re: Levels of <ST1><ST1><st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bell</ST1></ST1></st1:place></st1:City>
Production</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>F<ST1>org</ST1>ot
to say earlier</span></font><O></O><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><O></O>Another
key thing about this is that available figures are likely to be numerical -
i.e. number of bells cast. More meaningful, yet harder still to establish,
would be the figure for tonnage, i.e. total weight of bells cast in a given
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size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><O></O>Probably
a tendency in recent years for there to be more bells numerically but smaller
ones - so an apparent increase in activity may in fact mask a decline (or the
decline is more serious than it appears)</span></font><O></O><o:p></o:p></p>

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