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    Pre War Pigeon Clock
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    Antique Pre War Pigeon Clock

    Ref 11500 - A pre War wooden cased Pigeon Timing Clock by the Automatic Timing Clock Co Ltd of Lancashire. Clock number 129516, certificate number 39856. The clock glass is etched with Imperator Toulet, H.Martens & Cie, 129516. The wooden case is beautifully tongued and grooved, measures 7 x 4.5 x 7 inches high, 18 x 11 x 18 cms.

     
    Pigeon Clocks or Timers as some of us may call them have been around since the late 1800s. They are used to calculate the speed of the Racing Pigeon as it heads back to its home Loft.
    A rubber band arker ring is fitted to the pigeons leg and upon its arrival to its loft, its owner will remove this special band and insert it into the clock timer inside a Thimble and turn a lever thus recording the time the bird arrived home.
    Then back at the club house that evening VELOCITY is determined by yards or metres per minute ...quickest time is the winner.
    Today, they have computer clocks which can be connected to ones computer at home, the rubber bands are replaced with rings with a microchip in them which sends a signal to the computer clock, without the owner having to handle the bird at all!!! (With thanks to Mario Corral of Australia)

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