CLOCK SYSTEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 2

CLOCK SYSTEMS

TIMEPIECE WITH 685 FACES. Probably the biggest time-recording .system in Britain is to be seen in the new Imperial Chemicals House, Millbank. It is a clock with 685 faces, and these record the time in that number of skipara'ljej. departments. This type of multi-clock, electrically controlled is oonyparatively 1 modern. . It may be more exactly described not so much a,g one clock as a clock family, with. a patriarch at its head controlling its numerous .progency so completely that his family never differ or disagree, and never loose touch with one another.

! Timepiecp collectors ( are not unknown. By far the biggest collection is the King’s. He has more than 1000. At Windsor Castle there are 360, a.t .Sandringham 250, at Buckingham Palace 160, and there are others in Scotland. It takes 24 men .two months in the year to clean them all. Most people think of the Law Couits as a building with one 'big clock which tells the time to Fleet Street and the .Strand, and it is surprising to learn that the big Gothic pile contains 650 (Separate Other welmotocked buildings in London are the (London Hospital .and Unilever House with 250 clocks each, Parliament and the new Shell building with 200 each and Bush House with 150. Government buildings are still in the key-winding'stage.