on dial: 'Silent | Electric Clock Co. Ltd. | 192 Goswell Rd. | E. C.'. On plaque mounted on case: 'SILENT ELECTRIC CLOCK CO., LTD. | 192 GOSWELL RD., LONDON, E.C.'
Overview
A half-sized electric pendulum clock with a brass bob in a wooden case with a glass front, badged ‘Silent Electric Clock Company’. This company was founded c.1908 by George Bennett Bowell, a former collaborator of Frank Hope-Jones and the Synchronome Company. The company’s clocks use the Hipp toggle principle to maintain the amplitude of the pendulum, and many of them were installed in the offices of the British Post Office company. This clock has labels inside for the batteries that supply the pendulum, dial and subsidiary dials.
