<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><p>Dennis Greenwood's booklet entitled "James Shaw, Son & Co - Bellfounders & Clockmakers of Bradford, Yorkshire" (published 1996) has some more (but not conclusive) details on Page 11.</p><p><br></p><p>I will scan the page later on when I get chance and post to this list.</p><p><br></p><p>Peter Kirby<br><br></p><blockquote style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px 2em; border-left-color: rgb(0, 173, 229); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "Mike Chester" <mikechester@hotmail.com><br>To: "bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br>Sent: Monday, 13 Jul, 20 At 14:15<br>Subject: [Bell Historians] Shaw of Bradford Patent Application<br><br> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> From Bell News, May 3rd 1884</div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Application for Patent.— James Shaw, 50, Lyndhurst Street, Leeds Road, Bradford, Yorkshire. Bellfounder and Church clock maker, for “ church bell gravity stop-motion," to prevent bell going over in change-ringing.<br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Does anyone know what this invention was? </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br> </div> <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri , Helvetica , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Mike</div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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