![]() Gillette explained about the state of the art around time clocks in those days: The Bundy clock (see image left) was used by Birmingham City Transport to ensure that bus drivers did not depart from outlying termini before the due time now preserved at Walsall Arboretum. In 1911, ITR, Bundy Mfg., and two other companies were amalgamated (via stock acquisition), forming a fifth company, Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), which would later change its name to IBM. In 1900, the time recording business of Bundy Manufacturing, along with two other time equipment businesses, was consolidated into the International Time Recording Company (ITR). A year later his brother, Harlow Bundy, organized the Bundy Manufacturing Company, and began mass-producing time clocks. His patent of 1890 speaks of mechanical time recorders for workers in terms that suggest that earlier recorders already existed, but Bundy's had various improvements for example, each worker had his own key. We can do better than that, and to pass on the baton is the key to citizenship, conviviality and with more economy serving the passer-by in even more locations without limit of cost or design.An early and influential time clock, sometimes described as the first, was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Le Grand Bundy, a jeweler in Auburn, New York. Where does that leave us? It leaves us wondering where a clock might both be needed and will survive a bill of £5,000 to repair a clock already costing many thousands! One place for a clock is both ends of The Run ferry at Mudeford quay and the Mudeford sandbank jetty.Ĭompared to the free flowing day and night journeys in my youth, maybe the discipline of time needs to reassert itself for both ferries and train. If one group loses touch, the clock can be a baton to hand on to the next right sort of persons. More involvement means better involvement and, as all good things can come to an end, a timepiece can be a piece of work for a succession of players with this symbol of where we make time more pleasant. Let’s get a school, college or local firm to supply and maintain a few clocks here and there in the borough. No Noddy clock since around 2006.īut London has livery companies for everything. Of course, the weather or urchins playing football did for these clocks in time. Then the Noddy Train seemed game for a clock next to the timetable at each end of the journey. ![]() That worked well, for a car boot clock, with a battery change each year. In the 1990s I mounted a quartz clock on the face of my Mudeford sandbank beach hut. ![]() How about considering a new lower central High Street position where it might be appreciated by a wider community audience? Will this happen? I suspect that only time will tell! If it is repaired, it may be worth relocating to a more accessible position for future maintenance. Unfortunately, the clock has always proved to be unreliable, so maybe it is time to have a rethink about whether an unreliable clock is worth restoring at all, even though the clock is not yet even a quarter of a century old. The parish council and several members of the community helped fund the repositioning of the clock, and I have already heard whispers that some members of the community are again prepared to put their hands in their pockets to help fund its repair if the clock was repositioned. In 2013, it was agreed that the clock, which was hung high on Collins and Butler’s wall, should sit lower on their shopfront to make it more visible and to make it easier to access for maintenance.
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