GledhillBrook.Com

As some of you who visit our site regularly may have noticed, our Gledhill Brook Time Recorder posts have received far and away more traffic, questions, and queries than any posts about any of our other clocks. We, therefore, felt there was call for a site dedicated exclusively to these timepieces.

We have created GledhillBrook.Com. It is an infant right now, but we hope to continually add to it, both as we ourselves do more research and as we recieve information from other GB lovers around the world.

Right now, visitors can find information on the company’s history, photographs of British workers using the time recorders, and a collection of print advertisements for the clocks from the early part of the twentieth century.

If you have resources, images, or memories of these clocks that you’d like us to share with the public on the site, there are many places you’ll find as you click around where you can email the information to us.

We love these locks; for those of you who also have a special place for them in your heart, we invite you to visit http://www.gledhillbrook.com.

Gledhill Brook Fusee Time Recorder. 1940s.

This was a complete case and movement restoration.

Gledhill Brooks Time Recorder. 1930.

This is a Gledhill Brook Time Recorder clock with Empire fusée movement . (Simplex, Ltd., bought out Gledhill Brook in 1964). It’s made in England. I have completed everything except the face which will have to be sent for restoration by a professional. Gledhill Brooks are widely regarded as the finest Time Recorders built and the only Company to fit their machines with ‘Fusee’ clock movements.

They were all of eight day duration and very good time keepers. The recorder mechanism in this one is in perfect working condition. I recall having to fabricate one of the control rods that connect the clock movement to the time recorder unit.

Below is a chart of serial numbers that might be of useful reference to you, as we often receive questions about the age of these clocks:

1912 – 3000 1918 – 13800 1919 – 17841 1920 – 18823 1921 – 19569 1922 – 21200 1923 – 21600 1924 – 21848 1925 – 22155 1926 – 22468 1927 – 22816 1928 – 23301 1929 – 23938 1930 – 29208 1931 – 50001 1932 – 50264

1933 – 51027 1934 – 51365 1935 – 51977 1936 – 52610 1937 – 53381 1938 – 54677 1939 – 55371 1940 – 57430 1941 – 59901 1942 – 62830 1943 – 65830 1944 – 67581 1945 – 69501 1946 – 70871 1947 – 72341 1948 – 73311

1949 – 74201 1950 – 74391 1951 – 76471 1952 – 78076 1953 – 79701 1954 – 80501 1955 – 81321 1956 – 81901 1957 – 82301 1958 – 84451 1959 – 85371 1960 – 86101 1961 – 87081 1962 – 87786 1963 – 89241