LARGE TOWER CLOCK

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17953, 3 December 1932, Page 7

LARGE TOWER CLOCK

MANUFACTURE IN MELBOURNE TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING MELBOURNE:, Nov. 24. A tribute to Australian workmanship is the clock, just completed, for the tower of the Convent of the Good Shepherd on Mount St. Cameo, Sandy Bay. Tasmania, to be erected shortly. It was designed and wholly made bv a Melbourne clockniakcr, and the task occupied three mouths. This is the first clock of its size made entirely in Australia for 40 years. The minute hands are 42in. long and 3£in. wide, and the hour hands 36im long with a “spade” bin. across. The dims are of the “dash” type for the clarity of vision. The hour dashes are aim by Sin. long. Behind the metal of the dials, which are sft. across, and together weigh half a ton, is -Jin. plate glass for illumination. These dials wore each cast in one piece, which is an achievement in view of their very open nature, consisting as they do of two metal rings bound only by the hour dashes.

Tim dock is worked by three weights One, a bunt 601 b.. actuates the driving mechanism. The weight for the striking of the hours is 1501 b.. and that for Ihe chime 1751 b. The striking and chiming work on three bells. The hour licit weighs 4cvt.. and the two of the chime 2jr\vt. and 3cwt. respectively.