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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>John H
Allen<BR><B>Sent:</B> 17 October 2009 13:55<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Re:
Levels of Bell Production<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And tonnage must mean
profitably and viability.<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">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></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">John<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<ST1>bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</ST1>
[mailto:<ST1>bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</ST1>] <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>bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</ST1><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [<ST1>Bell</ST1> Historians]
Re: Levels of <ST1><ST1>Bell</ST1></ST1> Production</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">F<ST1>org</ST1>ot to say
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">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></P></DIV>
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