Posted 1 year ago
jwendell222
(50 items)
Gledhill-Brook (1912 - 1964) factory clock in working condition with an early main S/N 6026. Mahogany case is 14" x 16" x 9 " with a sloped lid, called an 'Autograph Desk'. Workers signed in or out, pulled the lever which advanced a paper roll in the case and stamped the date and time. Shown are the clock wind and case key. A stout spring drives the dating mechanism through the clock. The company was based in Halifax and Huddersfield, England, the time-recorder business was sold to the Simplex Time Recorder Company of Gardner, Massachusetts which closed in 1975
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