[Bell Historians] Re: Obscure questions of the week

[David Bryant]

Matthew wrote:

The two trebles at North Bradley are also fitted with the new pattern
stock, 
they were cast in 1949 and hung the following year. Maybe these were 
prototypes?

Hmm. The heavy six at Hutton Cranswich (1947) all have the new pattern
stocks. Surely they wouldn't be using prototypes of a whole ring this
early before the type was introduced. Perhaps it was only the larger
patterns they had to make in 1951. Another example I can think of is St
George Colegate, Norwich, where bells 4 and 6 have fabricated canon
retainers and the others the mark II cast iron stocks. The installation
is of 1950.

David