A WONDER CLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20762, 3 January 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)

A WONDER CLOCK.

A remarkable bronze clock, destined for a public building in Ontario, lias been made in London. It measures 18ft. from top to bottom, and weighs over a ton. The lower part, represents the round tower of a Norman castle, before which, every quarter-hour, two knights meet to joust. With levelled lances the knights charge each other, twice at a quarter-past, four times at half-past, and six times at threequarters past the hour. When the clock strikes the full hour they have eight bouts. Occasionally a combatant is hit, and, pivoted on his thighs, falls back on the haunches of his charger. He comes up smiling, however, for the next round. The design is taken from the clock on Wells Cathedral, which was invented bv Peter Lightfoot, a fourteenth-century monk at Glastonbury. A small rotary motor provides the power, and the performance is controlled automatically by a synchronome master clock. The timepiece was executed by Mr. F. HopeJones. -who is the maker of the clocks at Greenwich Observatory that have broken the world's record for timekeeping.