[Bell Historians] Re: Levels of Bell Production

[Richard Smith]

Chris Pickford wrote:

> Probably a tendency in recent years for there to be more 
> bells numerically but smaller ones - so an apparent 
> increase in activity may in fact mask a decline (or the 
> decline is more serious than it appears)

I would have expected this too, but since 1960 the surviving 
output (as listed in the pNBR) seems to be pretty constant 
at around 25 tons/year.  See this graph:

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

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