TWO-DIAL CLOCK.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12912, 14 July 1936, Page 5

TWO-DIAL CLOCK.

PORTRAYS EMPIRE IN ENGLISH WINCHESTER. Eng., June 12. COLLEGE. A unique and beautiful clock has been erected on one of the old flint walls of William of Wykcham’s building, now in the library of Winchester College. This is the empire clock, the works of which have been designed and made bv Mr Henry Baker and Mr Robert Stewart. The decoration of the clock face' and surrounding stonework is by Sii Herbert Baker, the architect. INNER. AND OUTER. DIALS'. There are two dials, an inner one which toils' the time in two periods of 12 hours, and an outer one which revolves once in the 24 hours. The numerals for the outer dial arc carved on the stonework outside the rim. On the outer dial are symbols showing the time at Greenwich' and the time in the Dominions. Where countries like the Sudan and East and West African colonies are close to the longitude of Greenwich, symbols for these have been omitted. Starting with Great Britain, the Greenwich symbol is the lion. South Africa, two hours earlier, has its winged springbok. The Indiap Ocean is given an early Arab ship, followed 5$ hours ahead of Greenwich by the Great Star of India. Another hour o ’ comes the peacock feather of Burma with the letter “B,” and the Singapore with its harbor denoted by an anchor and an “S':” DOMINION SYMBOLS. Australia, eight to ten hours ahead, i_s designated by wattle leaves over the Southern Cross, and New Zealand by the Southern Cross alone. Following these is the antipodean line where midday at Greenwich is midnight. The landless expanse of the Pacific is shown by a three-masted ship. Then comes Canada with five time zones and her maple leaves, on which can be discerned the Welsh leek, the Irish shamrock, the Scottish thistle, the English rose, and the French fleur-de-lys. A fish symbolises Newfoundland, and a two-masted ship the Atlantic Ocean. Stainless steel has largely been used in the construction of 'the clock. A lever makes the necessary alteration for summer time on the 12-hour clock without a fleeting the 24-hour dial.