[Bell Historians] Latchet stays, was St Barnabas, Pimlico

[Ted Steele]

David Willis wrote:
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> Looking at the pictures of the latchet stay device at Pimlico it strikes
> me that the system would quite readily accommodate a torque device to
> prevent damage if a bell bumped the "stay" to danger point.
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> Ted
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> If this arrangement is supposed to be an unbreakable stay,.......etc.
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I have not suggested that the latchet stay is supposed to be 
unbreakable; in fact it quite clearly is not. My suggestion was that it 
could be developed in that way.

Ted