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Clocks

If yours is like mine there's an adjustment screw on the bottom of the pendulum (shortens or lengthens it), trial and error adjustment of the pendulum length will get it to keep proper time although they are never going to match digital clocks for accuracy.
 
My 3 key clock as an 8 day movement which I wind once a week (making sure not to overwind), bought it from Hinds 8 years ago. Unlike the other Eric I like the chimes, one of the reasons I purchased the clock, living by myself it makes the house seem less empty, it is a very good time keeper after adjusting the screw on the pendulum a few times till I got it right. Eric
 
Bhatti, mine is hour strike left, movement centre and chimes right, I should think they are all the same, to make sure don't wind the left key hole and see which function fail to operate, that is how I sussed it out. Eric
 
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Heres my clock in my mancafe frontroom I stopped the clock so you can see the vertical marker I still have had to use a plumb line to get it right I pulled this clock out of wifes family home in Liepzig 2 days after the wall came down.
 
One of the clocks on the ruins of St Thomas's Church in the Peace Garden, seen from Holloway Head (the time was wrong)



 
Are you sure that's New Street in 1968, as by then the concrete station was completed Viv. So might be earlier.
 
Good point. It must have been incorrectly labelled - from a book called 'Railscene' by Douglas Doherty. It's says its New Street (Midland side) 12 July 1968. Viv.
 
Looking at a photo on https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/lnwrbns_str423.htm it says
Looking towards Wolverhampton along New Street station's Platform 3 with on the right train indicator boards and clocks standing on Platform 2. The indicator boards pointed in the direction of where the train would come to rest whilst one of the two clocks would give the trains arrival time and the other its departure time.
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but the indicator clocks in the pic in post#151 appear to show a large difference in time.
 
Yes it seems too great a difference; the top one 5.00 and the bottom 3.15. Maybe they'd fallen out of use. Viv.
 
Vivienne14 said:
Good point. It must have been incorrectly labelled - from a book called 'Railscene' by Douglas Doherty. It's says its New Street (Midland side) 12 July 1968. Viv.
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It's definitely a diesel train. But maybe early 1960s before the Victorian station was demolished. As the late 1960s station was completed by 1968 (minus the shopping centre above it).
 
ellbrown said:
It's definitely a diesel train. But maybe early 1960s before the Victorian station was demolished. As the late 1960s station was completed by 1968 (minus the shopping centre above it).
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That's a Class 105 Cravens DMU (diesel multiple unit) built between 1956 and 1959 and still in original green livery. Photo has to be wrongly dated of course as it was a very different looking station by 1968.

Simon
 
on the shaft that you wind up,(the one you put the key on) is a notch. On the innermost part of the spring that you want to wind is a hole and groove that the notch fits in. I suspect that overwinding has caused the notch to come out of the hole so it is now slipping. Or the spring could have snapped which is less likely to happen. Either way it's probably a strip down which isn't cheap. Greart
 
Yes it could. Do you wind it a little and then it starts to slip or does it jam. Greart
 
It's as I thought, it's seems that it is just catching enough to give it a slight wind but as more tension is put on the spring it slips under the pressure. If you are confident you could do it yourself, BUT if not take it to a reputable repairer.
 
That's ok. There used to be a good repairer on Bournville village green. Not sure if he's still there now though G
 
Hi bhatti, i've tried to get a price for your clock but no success. I have however got the phone number for the clocksmith in bournville. 0121 415 5271. there are quite a few repairers in the jewelry quarter too. Sorry i could not be of more help G.
 
Another modern building in Birmingham with old style clocks. Quay Place on King Edwards Road opposite the Barclaycard Arena.

 
Did you know that on this day in 1968 British Standard Time was introduced all year round? Clocks weren't changed again until 1971 when the experiment was abandoned. I don't remember this at all. Viv.
 
I cannot recall this, but it seems it did happen. I do remember an earlier amendment to summer time and that was during WW2 when double BST meant it was still light quite late at night and often difficult to get to sleep particularly as school meant an early rise the next morning.
 
The joke here in Oz is that they don't have Summer Time in Queensland as they think the extra daylight hour will fade the curtains
 
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