[Bell Historians] Flat Crowns

[jimhedgcock]

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Was there any point other than for cosmetic purposes?

In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Chris Povey" <cmpovey at 3...> wrote:
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> 
> 
> > > Yes! - see attached photo of the second at Pebworth, cast in 
2002.
> >
> > That looks like a Doncaster Head to me!
> >
> > David
> >
> 
> That's precisely what it is, because that is what Whitechapel said 
it would
> provide. The other 2002-cast bell (the treble of the 10) has the 
same, as do
> the two 1995-cast bells (the present 3rd & 4th bells). The photo 
also
> answers Bill's question about the type of stock on which the new 
bells are
> hung. Although the stock in the photo looks exactly like a 
Whitechapel one,
> but isn't. When
> the 1995 bells went in, the idea was to match the 'up-and-over' 
Whitechapel
> stocks on all the 6 bells hung/rehung by Whites in 1986. 
Unfortunately,
> Whitechapel had stopped making this style of stock a few years 
previously
> and wouldn't provide more. Hayward Mills had two stocks fabricated 
to the
> Whitechapel pattern; and later did the same for the 2002 bells.
> 
> Chris Povey
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