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BUNDY CLOCKS:- The Severn Valley Railway has erected a Bundy clock outside Kidderminster Town station, where it is claimed to be the only one in use on the public highway (since all the other working examples are in various museums).
BUNDY CLOCK REQUIRED IN CAPE TOWN
One of the national newspapers has been discussing the noon-day gun which used to be fired from the foot of Table Mountain, above Cape Town, South Africa. One reader asked the gunners how they knew when it was noon as they did not have a radio. They pointed to a telescope focused on a very fine clock outside a jeweller’s shop and fired the gun as the hands indicated high noon. The same reader found himself outside the jewellers later that day. The owner expained that the clock had been imported from Amsterdam in the previous century and was the finest time-keeper in South Africa. The reader asked if he checked it with radio signals. “No need,” he said. “Every day they fire a noon-day gun on the mountain!”
A further reader described how all the chimps in Cape Town Zoo glanced at their wrists when the gun was fired because they had seen the visitors do the same so many times.
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