[Bell Historians] Re: Levels of Bell Production

[Richard Smith]

Richard Offen wrote:

> It would be very interesting to see how this compares to the same period
> around the beginning of the 20th century.

Considerably lower.  See this graph:

   http://ex-parrot.com/~richard/pnbr/surviving-modern-bells-by-year.png

Or this one for a longer period:

   http://ex-parrot.com/~richard/pnbr/surviving-bells-by-year.png

These plot bells listed in the pNBR excluding those with a 
'circa' by their date (so it'll slightly under-report very 
old bells).

Even 1998, the post-WWII year with the highest output, 
doesn't compete with the output from a hundred years ago. 
The two highest years are 1887 and 1897 -- Queen Victoria's 
golden and diamond jubilees.

RAS