[Bell Historians] Re: New 10s in 'virgin' towers

[jimhedgcock]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Mike Chester" <mike at ...> 
wrote:
>
The blurb in the tower at Mission gives them as 1951, I didn't look 
at the inscriptions. I did look at the inscriptions at Washington and 
they are dated 1962 for whatever that is worth.


> In Africa, Greyville (Taylors 1921), Cape Town (Taylors 1979) and 
> Harare (Whitechapel 1961)  come to mind.
> 
> In the States/Canada, post WWII, Mission City, (M & S 1950), 
Washington 
> (Whitechapel 1964, though possibly the tower was far from empty of 
> bells at the time! The carillon was cast the previous year by 
Taylors. 
> Were they installed at the same time?) and the Old Post Office 
> (Whitechapel 1976, hung 1983) 
> 
> Charleson went in intially as an 8 IIRC.  Did Atlanta go straight 
in as 
> a 10 in 2000?
> 
> Then there is Australia!
> 
> Mike
>