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ALL/01/005 · File · 1917–1974
Part of ALLIX, CHARLES

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).

ALL/01/004 · File · 1974–2003
Part of ALLIX, CHARLES

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.

ALL/01/003 · File · 1939–1989
Part of ALLIX, CHARLES

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.

WAD/01/H/026 · File · n.d. [post-1976]
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

A series of nine weekly original articles, including "The great museums of the capital" by Bevis Hillier, "Singular tastes: specialist museums" by Peter Quennell, "The arts of war: military museums" by Michael Howard, "The moving experience: transport museums" by Ludovic Kennedy, "Municipal majesty: regional museums I" by ASA Briggs, "The province of culture: regional museums II" by Lady Mary Clive, "Professional pride: insitutional museums" by Lord Mancroft, "The fame of the name: personality museums" by Elizabeth Longford, and "Pride of place: local museums" by Geoffrey Grigson. Weeks 9–10 are missing.

SHE/06/003 · File · 1951–1952
Part of SHENTON, ALAN AND RITA

Two originals torn out of Jeweller and Metalworker (January 1951 and March 1952) and two photocopies from Jewellers Journal Book of Recipes (n.d., nineteenth century).

GEORGE WALKER DIALS
TEN/A/28 · Subseries · 1981–2006
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by George Walker or Walker & Company, Birmingham dial makers active around 1810.

ALL/01/002 · File · 1908–1988
Part of ALLIX, CHARLES

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.

FREDERIKSEN, MILDRED
FRE · Collection · 1955–1966

This collection comprises a series of eleven scrapbooks and one volume of Honeybone family history. The scrapbooks contain photographs, press cuttings, brochures, booklets, postcards, drawings, cartoons, typewritten quotations, handwritten notes, excerpts from fiction, music scores and other ephemera related to clockmaking and watchmaking, collected by Mildred Frederiksen. The descriptions of each volume in this catalogue provide contents highlights, but do not list every item. Most items are not individually dated.

Frederiksen, Mildred
NOR/02/005 · File · n.d. [20th century]
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Photocopies of annotated typewritten notes on aspects of the clock: chiming, striking to the nearest second, winding by electric motor, summertime. Includes diagram.

FRANCIS BYRNE DIALS
TEN/A/09 · Subseries · 1977–2008
Part of TENNANT, FRANCES

Images of dials made by Francis Byrne, a Birmingham dial maker active there in 1772–77 and in London in the 1780s and 1790s.

WAD/01/H/001 · File · n.d. [mid-20th century]
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article from Journal Suisse d'Horologerie et de Bijouterie: Revue de la Société Suisse de Chronométrie (n.d.), pp. 364–366. Annotated '81'.

WAD/01/G/011 · File · 1991 Apr
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article about the late seventeenth-century London clockmakers and their bracket clocks, from The Antique Collector (April 1991), pp. 77–80. Includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages and issue cover.