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Incomplete set, 13 of 25 cards only. Also includes Llewellin's Machine Co. Ltd card, with drawings of watches, time stamps and autograph recorders.

Complete issue of a journal devoted to fell founding and bell ringing

Contains a handwritten description of the clock, instructions on how to take it out of the case, a large mounted photograph, and nine small b/w photographs of its movement. Originally kept in an envelope dated 1949.

In an envelope addressed to Miss B.K. Moxley

Contains The Pul-Syn-Etic System Book 5, including instructions for assembling clock; the Synchronome catalogue; advertisements; leaflets on Magneta impulse and synchronous clocks and master clock system, etc.

2 pages only, written on the insides of hardback covers removed from a notebook (notebook not present)

Paperback

Contains typewritten circulars regarding price lists and price changes, and a list of popular trademarks.

7th edition, hardback

Pleasance and Harper were goldsmiths, jewellers and diamond merchants based in Bristol, est. 1879. File also includes an annotated reprint from The Trade Journals relating to the expansion of the business, and correspondence from Philip Thornton with catalogues of his precision tools.

Also includes photocopies

Contains correspondence with Charles Carr Ltd and the Woodland Bell and Brass Foundry, with quotations for bells; specification of 8-day turret clock "of best English make" by Electric Power Factory / Niehus Brothers; printed brochure of testimonials for Niehus Bros; branded stationery; promotional material; notes on various technical aspects of clockmaking (such as pinion depths and "how to make a clock strike slower"); drawings of various ...; poem on the death of Edward Ward, clockmaker, at Grimsby parish churchyard; advertisements for the Niehus Brothers "Vulcan" demagnetiser; printed instructions and diagrams regarding the setting up of church and tower clocks, and a paper cutting with an obituary of Frederick Henry Shipton.

Contains printed material advertising counters and counting instruments, autographic time registers, control clocks / watchman's watches, "Realm" time recorders and time checking machines, and worm reducing gears.

Contains mainly illustrations of longcase clocks, but also includes the following: an article on John Harrosin from the staff magazine of the National Westminster Group (February 1976; a Mason and Sullivan catalogue of imported clock movements; F.W. Newman's catalogue of clock oils and cleaning fluids; The Mechanical Clock Industry in Great Britain: Questions and Answers for Manufacturers, Importers, Wholesalers, Retailers, a brochure by E. A. Millett Wood (1954); an excerpt from Howgrave-Graham's book on the Wells Clock; an article on the Tower of Big Ben from The People's Own Paper (n.d.), with a drawing of the inside of the tower; newspaper cuttings re. record prices for Tompion and Knibb clocks; price lists for clock parts and engraving services; and handwritten notes on practical aspects of clockmaking.

Developed by The Imperial Dry Plate Co. Ltd, Cricklewood, London

One broken in half.

This collection comprises material created and collected by the Bristol clockmaker Henry Draisey. It contains notebooks, drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, glass plate negatives and printed material (books, newspaper cuttings, catalogues, price lists, etc.).

Articles on: the age of Bristol’s churches; Christie’s watch auction featuring musical watch by James Cox and a John Arnold watch used by Captain Cook (1933); old Salisbury Cathedral clock (1949); repair of a clock hand dislodged from the clock at St Paul's Church Bristol (1953); exports of grandfather clocks to the USA (1972); a Tompion clock at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery in Bedford (1973); R. Gobbs’ article on his work maintaining turret and other clocks (1973); and Sotheby’s sale of a Graham clock at record £36,00 (1974).

108 pages. Topics include: quarter chime movement, recoil escapement, watch and clock trains, weights and sizes of bells of St Philip's and St Jacob's church in Bristol, pendulum bobs, metals, turret clocks done by H. Draisey, compensated balance, dead-beat escapement, pinor jewel pallets, Americal pallets, hour and quarter chime snails, rack work, turret clock dial work, the Universe, the Solar System, the Year, turret clocks locking plate. warning and stop work, electric clocks balance type, the gravity escapement, enameled iron dials, hard soldering, electric gilding, batteries, dial clock train, recipe for French polish, the Wells Clock, the Big Ben, etc. With diagrams.

120 pages. Topics include: bells, composition of bell metal, tolling levers, bell ropes, Ellacombe's chiming hammers, stays and sliders,gudgeons, iron stocks and frames, clappering, bell towers, etc. With diagrams.

121 pages. Topics include: turret clocks, new chime machinery (by Gillett & Bland and Lund & Blockley), clock hammers, public clock specifications, train remontoires, bells, etc. Also includes a list of great belles pasted in at the end, and loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

140 pages. Topics include: early clocks, pendulum springs, pendulum regulation, compensation of pendulums, heaviest pendulums, wooden rods, mercurial compensation, half-dead escapement, pin wheel escapement, pin pallets, the four-legged escapement, the double three-legged escapement, electrical clocks, tell-tale clocks, church / turret clocks, etc. With diagrams.

66 double-sided pages. Topics include: balance / hair spring, balance staff, remontoire movement, music as applied to horology, the best bells to use when fitting chime clock's hammers, accepting orders for large turret clocks, carillions, pendulum lengths, silvering clock dials, recipe for cleaning solution, sidereal and solar days, meridian dial, early clocks, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

107 double-sided pages. Topics include: cosmography and horology, brief history of timepieces and clocks, and descriptions of clepsydra, verges, different types of escapements, wheels and pinions, laws governing the pendulum, etc. With diagrams.

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include turret striking movements, g.f. clock trains, church clock dials and hands, prices of turret repairs, etc. Also includes loose notes on related topics. With diagrams.

Unnumbered and unpaginated. Topics include various striking movements and g.f. clock trains. Also includes loose notes with prices of clock repairs. With diagrams,

These notebooks contain definitions, descriptions, notes and comments on various types and examples of clocks, movements, technical matters etc., with diagrams. Written in neat, almost calligraphic handwriting in black and red ink, they may have initially been compiled as part of a clockmaker's training, as some paragraphs in notebook no. 1 are marked 'very good'. They are captioned 'H. Draisey Esq., clockmaker, 216 Bath Road, Bristol'

Gives customer's name, type of clock, work carried out, price, and in a few cases date. Also includes loose notes.

Compiled and published by J.S. Streele, Bristol and Machinery, London, respectively

Mostly cut out from journals and other publications. Includes: Niehus Brothers, Bristol (Vulcan demagnetiser and Fluoron hard soldering solution); R&J Dick Limited (Dickropebooklet); James Cooke & Son, Birmingham (dial manufacturers); Jos. Koepfer & Söhne, Baden; The Synchronome Company (automatic switch); Brooks, Tottenham (wheel cutter); G.H. Lister, Nottingham (clock manufacturer and wheel and pinion cutter); Wellington & Ward Ltd., Elstree (Seltona collodion self-toning paper); O. Comitti & Son Ltd, London (mining instruments including air gauge, hygrometer, thermometer, barometer and aneroid); Western Clock Co., La Salle-Pery, Ill., USA (Westclox); W. Jeacock, London (dial engraver); Davis and Timmins Ltd products (screws, nuts, washers, aircraft parts); the Orchestra Gong by unidentified manufacturer; the Hamburg-American Clock Factory, Schramberg (Pistos: The New 14 Day Half Hour Striking movement No. 63 for Bracket- and for Wall-Clocks); a series of machines by unidentified manufacturer (Automatic Wheel Cutting Machine R; Wheel Topping Machine H, Wheel Polishing Machine F, Automatic Pinion Cutting Machine J, Pinion Polishing Machine T, Machine for winding up springs Z, Hand Pinion Cutting Machine, Cutter Gringer X, Universal Wheel Cutting Machine K, Automatic Worm Milling Machine W); clockworks price list by unidentified manufacturer. Also includes a clockworks diagram and description from an incomplete "The Artificial Clockmaker" article from The Dial; an article on “Movement of the Shell-Mex Clock” by Gillett And Johnston from The Engineer (7 October 1932); Peerless”, a page from an unidentified publication showing suspension of tubular bells and movement of an unidentified clock; and publication advertisements for the new revised editions of Britten's Old Clocks and Watches*.