[Bell Historians] Re: Canon-retaining headstocks

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" <david at b...> 
wrote:
> > say 'types' because Taylors' current design had a predecessor 
(cf.
> Tideswell).
> 
> What do they look like?
> 
> David

If Chris and I are thinking of the same ones, they were of riveted 
plate steel and of a fairly similar shape to their current cast-iron 
ones. 

Taylors also hung some bells on a variation of their standard iron 
headstock. The picutre of Brockworth treble, in Church Bells of 
Gloucestershire (page 169),has always amazed me. Quite why the bell 
bolts don't bend when it's rung, I don't know!

Richard