Address: Unit 7, Willoughby Place, Millfield, Chard, Somerset TA20 2BB

Email: peter@towerclock.plus.com

Telephone: 01460 67320

Mobile: None.

Website: None.

Principal Contact: Peter Watkinson, FBHI.

Geographic Areas Covered: A 50-mile radius centred on Chard exc. the City of Bristol.

Types of Work Undertaken:

• Conservation, repair, and maintenance of all aspects of turret clock installations and associated mechanisms, including bell hammers.

• Replacement parts made in house in a well-equipped workshop.

• Evaluation reports on the condition and requirements for repair and conservation of turret clocks.

• Off rope access to external dial-work, decoration, and gilding of dials up to 5ft in diameter up to a height of approx. 45ft (15m).

• Automatic-winding installation in a neat and tidy manner without material alteration to the clock. Also, maintenance of most older winding systems.

• Automatic night-silencing of striking.

Company Description:

• Established in July 1984 in Chard, Somerset, after seven years experience working for

a long-established Surrey-based turret clock company. Previously having studied a

City & Guilds maintenance technicians engineering course at Taunton Technical

College for a year and attending the BHI full-time horology course at Hackney

Technical College for a further two years.

• I have a 1,300 sq. ft. workshop equipped with all machinery to cover the requirements

of most turret clock work, turning, milling, gear-cutting, grinding, light forge work,

welding and fabrication, and woodwork.

Types of Work Not-Undertaken: I do not undertake bell-hanging work other than very small non-swinging bells. I do not work on electronic or digital control systems.

Statement:

All our work on turret clocks complies with the Code of Practice for Turret Clock Work issued by the Clocks Advisers Forum in collaboration with turret clock restorers and the Church Buildings Council.

I am very happy to consult with the Turret Clock Advisory Panel where I think an adjustment or addition is necessary to the dial drive-out, bell hammer cranks or weight-line pulleys to enable a reduced weight to be used to reduce wear and for the better running of the clock.