ELECTRIC CATHEDRAL BELLS.
Trials have been made at the Cathedral of Notre Dame with an electric" motor to ring the bells. Only the smaller bells have been experimented on, but the machinery was quite successful, and .will now be adapted for use on tha famous Gros Bourdon, the biggest bell in the city, after the Savoyarde or tha Sacre . Cbeur .of Montm'artre. Th« Bourdon weighs 13 tons, and its clapper 6cwt; while the Savoyarde weighs' 19 tons. Parisians only hear the Bourdon on fete days or special, occasions, for id requires^ the/.services of eight men to set it in motion, and it is a. costly operation. With'the electric motor, tha bell will be run from the sacristy by simply pressing a button, and'thus the old bell whose sponsors were King Louis XIV. and Jlme. de Maintenon,will be modernised and brought up toi date. The system is, of course; not new. It has been applied in many; places, notably, Laeken, near Brussels,' which installed it ten years ago in ita Church of Notre Dame. ' . :
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 13
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173ELECTRIC CATHEDRAL BELLS. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 13
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