Clock parts

Metal tobacco tin (‘Bishop’s Move’) containing relics from H1 removed during the 1934 overhaul. The sixteen parts include a small piece of H1’s original maintaining-power spring (25.8 high and approx .35-.4 thickness, the remainder still in the machine), several pieces of galvanised tin-plate used for experiments when making new pallets and a wire slider weight, used with the torquemeter.

Object Details

ID: ZAA0860
Collection: Timekeeping
Type: Clock parts
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gould, Rupert Thomas
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gould Collection
Measurements: Overall: 26 x 82 x 57 mm