Re (2): [Bell Historians] The 26 bells of St Wilfrid's Harrogate

[David Sloman]

Most of the fittings at Felsted are still Warners including aluminium 
headstocks on the 7th & tenor.

DS
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Subject: Re (2): [Bell Historians] The 26 bells of St Wilfrid's Harrogate


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>> Didn't it used to be standard practice at Taylors to hang their
>> lightest bells on steel bar headstocks? If I remember correctly the
>> front bells at Surfleet have this type of headstock, as do the trebles
>> of the 1970s eight in Houston, Texas, to mention just a couple.
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> Should distinguish between straight, square section mild steel and the
> fairly elaborate W.I. stocks used circa 1900 - e.g. Painswick, Surfleet
> and Loughboro BF etc. The former are an 'economy measure'.
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> On the subject of unusual headstocks, does anyone know if the rather
> unusual Warner stocks pictured in the RW in the period 1915-ish on the
> ring at Felstead are still extant? From Warners' blurb it sounds as though
> at least some of them might have been aluminium.
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> Steve
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