[Bell Historians] Warner Bells

[Chris Pickford]

Warners did weigh their bells, but as the foundry records haven't 
survived we often don't have "exact" weights. Generally, full weights 
for Warner bells are only available from contemporary reports (e.g. 
/Bell News/, /Ringing World/ or local papers), where the invoices happen 
to survive or if someone happened to record them at the time (e.g. lots 
of Warner weights in Deedes & Walters "Essex").

It is sometimes said that Warners weighed their bells with clappers and 
fittings. I very much doubt if this is the case, although occasionally 
(as at Lancaster RC Cathedral) what seem to have been weights provided 
for carriage purposes (i.e. including fittings if that's how bells were 
despatched) have been wrongly interpreted as bell weights. Weight by 
nett bell metal has been industry standard for quite a while.

The same - no surviving records and therefore no proper weights 
available - is the same for many other Victorian founders, of course.

-- 
Chris Pickford
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