Lot 16
An interesting early 20th century clockwork and electric water level meter Designed to Barr & Lennox's Patent No 670308, Made by Glenfield & Kennedy, Kilmarnock and used at the Nork Reservoir
15 December 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,500 - £1,900
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Designed to Barr & Lennox's Patent No 670308, Made by Glenfield & Kennedy, Kilmarnock and used at the Nork Reservoir
The upper section glazed and set with a brass plaque " How Green" with hinged doors to the front, right hand side and top, over a rectangular base with applied moulding to the hinged door and set on a well moulded base, the upper part revealing the twin dials, the first signed in enamel with Roman numerals and heavy blued steel hands, to a weight driven movement with substantial brass plates shaped in the outline of a scroll frame skeleton clock united by highly individual ball-and-baluster pillars, with deadbeat escapement driving the rotating brass recording drum, the case further set with a silvered Arabic dial giving the depth of water in feet (from 0 to 18 measured to the nearest 3 inches), the brass recording hand with arrow-shaped tip and driven by two large wheels with impulse rollers driven by twin electric contact points engaged as the water level rises and falls, the changes in level communicated to the rotating drum via a pulley and wire system 150cms (4ft 11ins) high.
The upper section glazed and set with a brass plaque " How Green" with hinged doors to the front, right hand side and top, over a rectangular base with applied moulding to the hinged door and set on a well moulded base, the upper part revealing the twin dials, the first signed in enamel with Roman numerals and heavy blued steel hands, to a weight driven movement with substantial brass plates shaped in the outline of a scroll frame skeleton clock united by highly individual ball-and-baluster pillars, with deadbeat escapement driving the rotating brass recording drum, the case further set with a silvered Arabic dial giving the depth of water in feet (from 0 to 18 measured to the nearest 3 inches), the brass recording hand with arrow-shaped tip and driven by two large wheels with impulse rollers driven by twin electric contact points engaged as the water level rises and falls, the changes in level communicated to the rotating drum via a pulley and wire system 150cms (4ft 11ins) high.
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