clock
- Museum number
- 2017,8031.37
- 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). Blued steel hour and minute hands.
Movement:
8 day 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: 74 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
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'Dot' type movement.
Similar to 2017,8031.33 but with a 'cheapened' Dot movement which is not stamped BUCC but stamped again with BUCC's "Made in England" and with the same "WIND" marking with arrow.
Likely to have been made with BUCC equipment after the closure of BUCC in 1909.
(Information courtesy of Peter Gosnell)
Compare also to 2017,8031.34 and 35.
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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, foxing to celluloid. washer (from centre arbor? separate from clock on acquisition) stored in plastic bag with clock.
- Acquisition date
- 2017
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2017,8031.37