[Bell Historians] First use of roller bearings?

[Nigel Taylor]

I am not sure the difference is clear. I have often seen references to bells 'hung on roller bearings' when clearly they are not. Bob Parker used rollers, and Whitechapel used them sometimes for large, swinging bells.

Nigel Taylor

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Just wondering if the distinction between roller bearing and ball bearings is clear. Roller bearings seems to be common parlance for anything that isn’t a plain bearing.

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On Friday, February 25, 2022, 19:10, georgebellringer at gmail.com wrote:

Jennings in his book The development of British bell fittings deals with various forms of rollers in bearings, eg p.65.   So by the 1890’s they were well known.



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An 1896 newspaper article about the installation of a G&J chime with swinging tenor bell (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96404646<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newspapers.com%2Fclip%2F96404646&data=04%7C01%7C%7C35c3840a99a14e97ab9008d9f89433e6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637814137688734916%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=zDljv%2BPMDW9NCy%2BxOBfO1yqfZXe0Hgv0XHjaX6lwLDU%3D&reserved=0>) makes the claim that this is "the first time the roller principle has been introduced into bell hanging."  Is that claim correct?  If not, when and where were roller bearings first used?



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