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CLOCKMAKERS AND ENGRAVERS
EVA/04 · Series · 1913–2019
Part of EVANS, JEREMY

This series contains files of correspondence and cutouts from catalogues, newspapers, journals and other publications, relating to the work of individual clockmakers and engravers.

DRA/01 · Series · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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'

Clockmaking notebook
DRA/01/009 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook
DRA/01/008 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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

Clockmaking notebook no. 1
DRA/01/001 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 2
DRA/01/002 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 3
DRA/01/003 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 4
DRA/01/004 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 5
DRA/01/005 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

Clockmaking notebook no. 6
DRA/01/006 · File · n.d. [early 20th c.]
Part of DRAISEY, HENRY

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.

CAS/02/011 · File · n.d. [1950s]
Part of CASTLE, JOHN

Includes nine photographs, two postcards, one printed drawing and two negatives of clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle; Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris; a sixteenth-century automatic clock in the shape of a ship from a private collection, and some of unidentified origin.

WAD/01/S/003/02 · Item · 1978 Feb
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original article about collectible illustrations from antiquarian books, from Antique Collecting (February 1978), pp. 26–29. Also includes antique clock dealers' advertisement pages.

"Collectors scrapbook"
WAD/01/01/046 · File · 1974 Oct
Part of WADSWORTH, FRANCIS

Original pages from The Antique Dealer and Collectors' Guide (October 1974), pp. 141–142, including a short article on Huguenot clockmakers. Includes issue cover and advertisement page.

NOR/01/005 · File · 1970
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

NOR/01/006 · File · 1960s–1970s
Part of NORTHCOTE, LEWIS

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.