1951 Alfa Romeo 159

 

Juan Manuel Fangio won the Drivers’ Championship for 1951 in an Alfa Romeo 159 with three race wins and two second places. In the Italian Grand Prix Fangio retired with engine trouble and in Belgium he took ninth place after a wheel locked up requiring a 14 minute pit stop.

This model is shown with Alfa Romeo livery including a yellow painted grill indicating Fangio as the driver.

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The Cotehele Clock

 

The clock located in an alcove off the chapel at Cotehele House, Cornwall, England, is thought to be the oldest continuously working clock in Britain and in the same location since the late 15^th century. The clock has no face, but rings a bell on the hour. It is one of the oldest examples of a verge and foliot, as opposed to a pendulum, clock movement.

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The McLaren M7A Formula One Car

The McLaren M7A, driven by Bruce McLaren, won the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. The car was powered by a Ford-Cosworth, 3-liter V8 Engine with a Hewland 5-speed manual transmission.

Gurney Weslake Eagle

Dan Gurney formed the Anglo American Racers Formula 1 team in England in 1966 and began racing with his car called, the Eagle. In 1967 the outdated Coventry Climax engine was replaced by a newly designed Weslake 12 cylinder, 48 valve, three-liter engine. The car, driven by Gurney, won the Belgian Grand Prix that year.

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Salisbury Cathedral Clock

 

Along with several others, the Salisbury Cathedral clock is claimed to be “the oldest working clock in the world”. The clock is dated from 1386 and was originally housed in a bell tower next to the cathedral itself. The bell tower was demolished in 1790 and the clock moved to the cathedral tower where it continued to operate until 1884. A new clock was contributed to the cathedral by the Wiltshire Army Regiment in 1884 and the old lock was left to gather dust until 1928 when it was “rediscovered” by horologist T. R. Robinson. In 1956 the clock was restored to its original condition and operation with a new verge and foliot (oscillating bar) escapement.

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The Salisbury Cathedral Clock

 

Along with several others, the Salisbury Cathedral clock is claimed to be “the oldest working clock in the world”. The clock is dated from 1386 and was originally housed in a bell tower next to the cathedral itself. The bell tower was demolished in 1790 and the clock moved to the cathedral tower where it continued to operate until 1884. A new clock was contributed to the cathedral by the Wiltshire Army Regiment in 1884 and the old lock was left to gather dust until 1928 when it was “rediscovered” by horologist T. R. Robinson. In 1956 the clock was restored to its original condition and operation with a new verge and foliot (oscillating bar) escapement.

The clock mechanism is housed in a wrought iron frame 1.24 m high by 1.29 m wide. Viewed from the front, to going train (timekeeping) is on the right and the striking train is on the left. Each side is powered by a rotating drum attached through ropes and pulleys to stone weights. The speed of the going train rotation is governed by the verge and foliot escapement while the striking train rotation is controlled by the flywheel or air brake. As the clock only strikes on the hour, the striking train is locked for most of each hour. At the top of each hour a pin on the great wheel of the going train rotates the bar on the back of the clock that unlocks the great wheel of the striking train and allows the count wheel to control the number of strikes for that hour. Each strike is governed by the eight pins on the great wheel of the striking train, e.g. at four o’clock, the great wheel rotates through 180 degrees so that the striking lever is pulled up and released four times resulting in four chimes of the bell in the tower above. When the hour strike  is complete, the striking train is once again locked.

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St Andrews Church Clock

 

The clock is housed in the nave of the St Andrews church in the pretty Cotswold village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England.

 History of the clock

 There are no known documents that show an exact date when the clock was manufactured, but it is of similar construction to the Exeter Cathedral clock, the Marston Magna clock in Somerset and the Cotehele clock in Cornwall. A comparison with those clocks makes it likely that it was constructed in the late 15th century.

 Sometime after 1670, the clock was converted from verge escapement and foliot to a pendulum. For the conversion, the clock was turned upside-down and the release mechanism for the hour strike was adapted to the new positioning of the clock.

 In 1984, the clock was taken down from the bell tower to the nave of the church, and put on a concrete plinth in a wooden cabinet with glass panes. The moving parts were painted a lurid bright orange, and a minute hand with a 180 degree dial was added. The manual winding spokes were removed and electric winders were installed for both the going and striking train. (Wikipedia)

 I’ve been working on this model off and on since the middle of December, 2022. It’s been made difficult by a lack of detailed images available on the web, my usual source for learning about the subjects of my models. So on our way to a Cornwall visit with my daughter, Thea, and her husband, Kevin, Susan and I stopped in Castle Combe where I had a chance to take my own photos. Hopefully with some help from people who are familiar with the mechanism, I’ be able to animate the model.

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