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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Subscribers to this list who care about steel bells and the work of Naylor Vickers might be interested in a new page I have just put on my website <a href="https://www.hibberts.co.uk/ewald-riepe-naylor-vickers-and-bochumer-verein/">https://www.hibberts.co.uk/ewald-riepe-naylor-vickers-and-bochumer-verein/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A German contact recently sent me a copy of a 1972 paper that changed my understanding of the origins of the steel casting technology used by Naylor Vickers. The processes and in particular the moulding technology were discovered in Germany by the owners of Bochumer Verein in the 1840s and licensed to Naylor Vickers in 1854. There was a close collaboration between Naylor Vickers and Bochumer Verein in the 1850s and 1860s, including exchanges of staff, as the technology was developed and exploited, and used for other purposes, such as the casting of wheels for railway vehicles, as well as for bells.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>None of this makes Naylor Vickers bells sound any better! But it has stood my view of the history on its head.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bill H<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>