Levels of Bell Production

[John]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Cairns" <andrew.cairns at ...> wrote:
>
> I was interested to read Mark Regan's letter (and associated graph) in todays RW. This may have been discussed before but has anyone done a similar analysis in other counties or nationally? It would also be interesting to know who Mark compiled his numbers; the obvious starting point in the NBR

Here is the data from the pNBR for the years back to 1970:

pNBR bells
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Year  in pNBR
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 1970:   101
 1971:   120
 1972:    82
 1973:   110
 1974:    84
 1975:    76
 1976:    60
 1977:   125
 1978:   120
 1979:   107
 1980:   101
 1981:   102
 1982:    78
 1983:    85
 1984:    81
 1985:    71
 1986:    56
 1987:   110
 1988:   100
 1989:    97
 1990:    81
 1991:   108
 1992:   105
 1993:    84
 1994:    68
 1995:   124
 1996:   116
 1997:    89
 1998:   223
 1999:   145
 2000:   167
 2001:   115
 2002:    72
 2003:   113
 2004:   110
 2005:   112
 2006:   109
 2007:    85
 2008:   100
 2009:    54
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Total:  4046