[r-t] Re: Exercise Mathods

Hayden Charles hcharles at grandsire.co.uk
Mon Jan 31 13:52:33 UTC 2005


DOes it depend on the date when thay were first rung? Once the decisions 
were changed to abandon these sub-classifications, then 'Imperial' could 
be used to mean anything.

Hayden

Richard Smith wrote on 31/01/2005 13:27:
> Ben Willetts wrote:
>>Imperial is "another obsolete classification for a method in which imperial
>>places are made" (eg Kent or Reverse Canterbury).
> 
> 
> This doesn't seem consistent with the present-day methods
> called something Imperial Bob.  There are nine (non-Little)
> Plain major methods with Imperial in their names:
> 
>   Sawston Imperial     &-4-1.34.1.34.1,1
>   Queen Imperial       &-4-36-5.34.7,1
>   Upton Imperial       &-4-36.2.5.36.1,1
>   Coslany Imperial     &-6-36.2.3.56.1,1
>   Oxford Imperial      &-1-6.34.5.34.7,2
>   Bisley Imperial      &-1.56.1-1.56.3,1
>   Malvern Imperial     &34.1-6-3.6.5,1
>   Llangollen Imperial  &34.1-36-1.56.3,1
>   Elmore Imperial      &36.1.56.3-3.6.3,2
> 
> Of these, Queen and Oxford have Kent or RC places; the rest
> do not.  And Upton, if you ignore the seconds, does not have
> any adjacent places at all!
> 
> Richard



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