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<div> Following my useless info question at Christmas about diagonal bell frames, I come up with another for Easter!<br>
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<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gillett & Johnstons' clapper control mechanism (patent no 30114) is fitted to and in working order in the Tenor at Christchurch Bradford on Avon (G&J 1923). Whilst I know of some other examples (Houghton le Spring bells 1/8 and 2/8 (working), </font>Southampton St Michael 10/10 (disused in arms pit under bell) and Preshute 6/6 (disused, missing gravity toggles from arms)), my question is this this: how many other examples of this G&J mechanism are there in bells up and down the country and were they only ever fitted to G&J cast bell or did they sometimes put them in bells by other founders which they had rehung?<br>
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David<br>
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P.S. DON'T enter into how it works, I seam to remember a LONG and heated discussion about that a few years back!<br>
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