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This collection comprises horological subject files of correspondence, publications, notes and photographs, compiled by Charles Allix.

Edward Banger was the apprentice of Thomas Tompion (1639–1713). The file includes handwritten notes on mechanical watch movements, list of repairs?, photographs and negatives.

Malcolm Gardner (1896–1960) was an antiquarian horologist, horological consultant and bookseller, and Charles Allix's business partner. Robert Gardner (1851–1932), his father, was a manufacturer of marine chronometers. Includes: Robert's and Malcolm's original business correspondence (handwritten and typewritten); published "horological who's who" biographical note on Malcolm; published obituaries of Robert and Malcolm; business certificates; Charles Allix (Malcolm Gardner) Horological Book Catalogue flyers; and Charles Allix's handwritten copy letter to "Sandra" on the death of her father Richard J. Coates.

Lieutenant-Commander Rupert Thomas Gould (1890–1948) was an author, broadcaster and horologist, and the author of The Marine Chronometer, its History and Development as well as Big Ben: Its Story and other publications. File includes typewritten correspondence relating to the publication of the Big Ben: its Story booklet; Gould's original correspondence; copies of Gould's art prints and sketches; research notes, correspondence and book catalogue entry relating to Gould's publications; drawing print of "Good Master Hydrographer, chart me the unknown seas"; and an annotated folder, with list of contents, entitled "In Memory..." and containing among other things: copies of the Horological Journal of November 1948 and The HIA Journal with letters on the death of Gould, a copy of a page from NAWCC Bulletin of June 1950 with a photograph of Gould with Harrison's Timekeeper no. 2, and pasted handwritten notes and correspondence.

Includes copy of Malcolm Gardner (Charles Allix) article on the sale of a collection of 16 quarter repeater watches published in Antiquarian Horology September 1976; lists of Graham's repeater watches, and correspondence mainly with Thomas Cox, Florida, USA, regarding their sales; copy extract from "The Astronomical Clocks at Greenwich" (1975), an article by Howse mentioning Graham 1 and Graham 2 clocks; copies of articles on George Graham's life and work, including by Jeremy Evans (1995) and C. Doris Hellman (1931); a handwritten extract from Graham's 1726 article for Watchmaker; and photocopies of sale catalogues showing Graham clocks.

Includes blueprint of gravity escapements; booklet of lesson 2/12 of British Horological Institute's "Correspondence Course in Technical Horology"; ball and roller bearings metric conversion tables; notes; correspondence regarding the manufacture of wheels and pinions; The Horological Journal article on "A Criticism of the ... Gravity Escapement" by O.B. Hutchinson; 1917 letter from A. Bertlain [?] with a design for a three-legged Grimthorpe escapement; five photographs; and a bundle of correspondence and photographs relating to the regulator clock by Isaac Jackson (1796–1862).

J. E. Haswell (1890–1967) was the director of R. Haswell and Sons (tool and material business), the author of Haswell's Horology textbook, and a member of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. File includes C. Allix's correspondence with Haswell, mainly concerning his book; Allix's correspondence with Mrs Edna Haswell, mainly regarding the estate of her late husband and the sale of items belonging to him; Haswell's obituary by C. Allix published in The Horological Journal; and obituary press cuttings.

Henry Hindley (1701–71) was a clockmaker and inventor based in York. File includes correspondence with Charles Taylor; copy page from Sotheby's sales catalogue (2002) listing a clockmaker's sector by Hindley; a newspaper advertisement and description of a mahogany clock from the workshops of H. Hindley, annotated "certainly not"; and 17 colour photographs of the clock provided by the seller, Northern Clocks.

Charles Hobson (1907–88) was a clockmaker and a honorary freeman of the Clockmakers' Company. File includes C. Alix's correspondence with Hobson; correspondence with Daniel Parkes regarding Hobson's Choice, a book of sketches of English bracket clock repeating work by Hobson, Allix and Harvey (1982); published reviews of Hobson's Choice; notes; copy of certificate of registration of Hobson Bros; photocopies of Hobson's letter to Col. Quill regarding his will; and an obituary of Hobson, published in Antiquarian Horology (Spring 1988).

Courtenay Adrian Ilbert (1888–1956) was a civil engineer and watch and clock collector; his collection was eventually acquired by the British Museum. File includes Charles Allix's correspondence with C.A. Ilbert; Malcolm Gardner's correspondence with solicitors regarding the estate of the late C.A. Ilbert and the valuation of his horological collection of clocks and books; lists of clocks, etc.

Includes Charles Allix's correspondence with C. Jennings regarding Mudge clocks and portrait; correspondence with solicitors regarding the valuation of his collection after his death in 1980; three photographs and one drawing.

Includes copies of articles from The Horological Journal and other publications, many of them antiquarian; Watch and Chronometer Jewelling booklet by N.B. Sherwood (Chicago, n.d.); notes, related correspondence and 1 photograph. Annotated "see also the Banger watch file" (ref. ALL/01/001).

Includes letter, draft Jump family tree compiled by Col. H. Quill, notes, sketches and newspaper and catalogue cuttings.

Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".

Frank Mercer (1882–1970) was a chronometer maker; his father was the founder of Thomas Mercer Ltd, a firm of makers of chronometers and precision equipment based in St Albans, dating back to 1858. File includes obituaries of Frank Mercer, biographical articles about Thomas junior and senior, an article about the firm's centenary, etc.

Includes letters, copy catalogue pages, eight photographs and slides.

Includes catalogues, photocopies of press articles, hand-drawn plan of Le Forges à Montécheroux, photographs and negatives, and related correspondence.

Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Includes H. Otto's and Charles Allix's correspondence with Prof. D.S. Torens, May & Philpot catalogue of furniture auction sale 2 November 1955, photocopy photographs, sketches, and extracts from The Horological Journal.

Includes correspondence with Prescot Mechanism Company and other organisations and individuals; press cuttings; copies, reprints and extracts from horological journals, publications and catalogues; flyer and programme for at City of Liverpool College course in Aspects of Horology held in 1983; and photographs.

Includes an article from The Horological Journal by Joseph M. Brown, handwritten notes and three photographs.

James Reith was apprenticed in 1698 and became the vice director of a watch manufactory in Versailles, France. File includes extracts from sales catalogues, technical descriptions, biographical information, invoices, photographs, and related correspondence.

Includes Sabrier's articles "Une Montre Expérimentale de Ferdinand Berthoud" and "Un Échappement a Roue de Rencontre sur Deux Niveaux", photographs and relates correspondence. Also includes papers relating to Pasquale Andervalt gas-wound clock.

Edwin Robert Sills (d. 1943) of Tottenham was a watch and chronometer finisher. File includes handwritten letters and an extract from the Clockmakers' Library Catalogue.

Includes a photocopy of an article on "The Description and Use of a Table-Clock" by Benjamin Martin (1704–182), scientific instrument maker, and related correspondence; and Lord Spencer's correspondence with Colonel Quill regarding clocks by Thomas Mudge, with photographs.

The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs

Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.

John Travers (1849–1937) was a marine chronometer escapement maker based in Ramsgate. File includes Travers' original correspondence; press cuttings relating to the Travers family; John Travers' obituary published in The Horological Journal (1938); notes and correspondence relating to his chronometer-fusee engine, and photographs.

Includes correspondence, handwritten notes, photocopies of sales catalogue pages, photographs, a photocopy of Thomas Reid's letter to B.L. Vulliamy of 1822, and Charles Allix's article "A mid-18th century alarm by Gray and Vulliamy" (Antiquarian Horology, Spring 1994).

Originally untitled, this file contains correspondence, photographs, postcards, notes, catalogue extracts etc. mainly relating to various clocks and watches and their sales. Includes: Delander watch no. 298; a spring balance clock and alarm in a solid rosewood case delivered to the Duke of Leinster in 1826; month–going longcase clock by David Lestourgeon; striking bracket clock by Edward East; Tompion longcase clock.