clock
- Museum number
- 2017,8031.35
- Description
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Automobile dashboard timepiece in brass drum case, circular cream celluloid dial.
Case:
Brass drum-shape case. Brass bezel with three screw holes for fixing to dashboard. Winding key with central hand set, regulation aperture below.
Dial:
Circular cream celluloid? dial with outer minute track with five minute markers, Arabic hour numerals (1-12). Stell hour and minute hands, tips of both missing.
Movement:
30 hr 'gnat' timepiece movement. Open springs. Pin-pallet escapement.
- Production date
- 1909 (Post ?)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 90 millimetres (max)
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Depth: 55 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Late 'Gnat' type movement.
Similar to 2017,8031.33 but with a 'cheapened' Gnat movement which is not stamped BUCC.
Likely having been made with BUCC equipment some time after the closure of BUCC in 1909.
(Information courtesy of Peter Gosnell)
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For further information on BUCC company and selected clocks see 'Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century', John Glanville & William Wolmuth, 2015, pp16-33."
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Latest: 4 (Apr 2018)
verdigris around bezel, rust on hands
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2017,8031.35