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FACTORY BELL TIMER UNIT, 1950's

Removed from The Whippendell Electric Works in Watford. Driven by a long case clock Item A0949, and used to ring bells for tea breaks, clocking on and off times etc. In use during the second World War, and was installed long before that.
Commonly known as a "Bell Ringer".

Your comments:

• I have installed these units they were part of the Gent of Leicester Pulsynetic Master and Slave clock system. They were often used to ring period bells in schools and equally important sound factory hooters for breaks and stop and start times. The master clock known as a C7 Transmitter was an electric pendulum clock sending pulses out every thirty seconds all devices were wired in series. I installed these in the 1960's while an apprentice with the Reliance Telephone Co. Ltd (GEC). The system also incorporated time recorders to stamp workers cards these however had converters to pulse every minute. This mechanism was part of the C7 Master Clock.
  .......... Ronald Murray, Kirkcaldy, Fife., 28th of May 2009
  
  

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