[Bell Historians] Ships bells

[khsbelring at aol.com]

John Mills were once founders of all sorts of things like Warners.They now do bespoke castings in brass mainly for the petro chemical industry like oil platforms.I believe they have about 5 moulds for casting bells but they are of the "admiralty" pattern - not church bell shape.They said that they would cast me new bells to that pattern in any metal that I chose.I will put info up about church bells that they cast in C19 & C20 at a later date. It is no use asking them because all their old records are lost or destroyed.
regards   Howard Smith



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From: Peter Rivet <peter at plrivet.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Ships bells

#yiv0431298302 #yiv0431298302 -- _filtered {} _filtered {} _filtered {}#yiv0431298302 #yiv0431298302 p.yiv0431298302MsoNormal, #yiv0431298302 li.yiv0431298302MsoNormal, #yiv0431298302 div.yiv0431298302MsoNormal {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:New serif;}#yiv0431298302 a:link, #yiv0431298302 span.yiv0431298302MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}#yiv0431298302 span.yiv0431298302EmailStyle20 {font-family:sans-serif;color:windowtext;}#yiv0431298302 .yiv0431298302MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered {}#yiv0431298302 div.yiv0431298302WordSection1 {}#yiv0431298302 John Mills of 509 Shields Road, Newcastle upon Tyne cast ships bells, or were doing so as recently as the 1970s : https://www.businessmagnet.co.uk/company/johnmillssonnewcastleltd-104131.htm  They are a very long established firm and in the mid/late 19th century they cast a few church bells as well, for example at Ellingham (1864) and Doddington (1865) in Northumberland.  According to correspondence I had with them they also used to cast things like brass lecterns.  Peter Rivet_______________________________________________
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