[Bell Historians] Re: St Oswald, Durham

[DJ Bryant]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, D Cawley wrote:

> Yes, it was correct. They are the old 3rd & 5th, 35" & 41" diameter, so the tenor may have been a little lighter than the claimed 17-cwt.

Presumably if it is 41" (and I take your word that it is, although it
looked smaller than that to me), then that's about 11 cwt, so on the basis
that the weight of n-1 is 2/3 the weight of n, then the tenor would be
expected to be not far short of 17 cwt.

David