[Bell Historians] Canon retaining bells

[Richard Offen]

> "Why did the new bells have Doncaster heads instead of canons? 
Whitechapel
> initially refused to cast bells with canons (hadn't done so since 
1954 or
> so, apparently)"

Don't know where that rumour came from, but it's not true! 
Whitechapel cast quite a number of full size replicas of the Liberty 
Bell, complete with canons, for the American Bicentenary and some 
more since I believe.

R