[Bell Historians] Watlington, Oxon

[aaj buswell]

Has conversions to metric been done with a rounding up/down and the 
recalculated back into imperial, again rounding up/down? I doubt it thought 
at that period of time. - Alan
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From: "John Baldwin" <Dovemaster at y1cR8WGVEvbPcO4NJ_VwcYIv0Ma3iPf6s7Z_8GsN5A7HpfI32H1W3ECNz2VNo1WhIbwQzJwz4AjIkr1PYaM.yahoo.invalid>
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Subject: [Bell Historians] Watlington, Oxon


> As progress continues with the p-NBR details within Dove, one of the
> issues that regularly recurs is the submission of tenor weights,
> expressed precisely (by which I mean quoted as cwt and qr and lb
> rather than as an approximation) and yet differing from the precise
> value we are showing in the conventional Dove listing.
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> Watlington tenor (M&S 1869) is a case in point.  Dove has shown 24-0-8
> since edition 1 (1950) and yet p433 of Sharpe's Oxfordshire (Vol 1
> appearing in 1949, the two visits to Watlington being 1948 and 1952)
> shows 24-0-7.  Those dates are all sufficiently close for one not to
> be able to postulate a typo either on FS's part or RHD's.
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> Does anyone have any authoritative information about the "precise"
> weight this bell please?  If not it seems sensible for me to remove
> this anomaly by amending the Dove weight to Sharpe's value.
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