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[[Image:BR1534_Plate4.jpg|thumb|Vickers range clock|400px|right|A Vickers Range Clock's mechanism revealed.]]
[[Image:BR1534_Plate4.jpg|thumb|Vickers range clock|400px|right|A Vickers Range Clock's mechanism revealed.<ref name=Plate4>Admiralty. ''Pamphlet on Minor Fire Control Instruments, 1946'', Plate 4.</ref>]]
 
The '''Vickers Range Clock''' was a simple clockwork [[Range Clock|range clock]] built by [[Vickers]] to a conceptual design suggested by [[Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet|Percy Scott]].  It was built in large numbers starting in 1906.<ref>Brooks, John. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and The Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control'' p. 25.</ref>


The '''Vickers Range Clock''' was a simple clockwork [[Range Clock|range clock]], [[Admiralty Pattern Number]] 3778<ref name=Plate4/> built by [[Vickers]] to a conceptual design suggested by [[Percy Moreton Scott, First Baronet|Percy Scott]].  It was built in large numbers starting in 1906.<ref>Brooks, John. ''Dreadnought Gunnery and The Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control'' p. 25.</ref>


==See Also==
==See Also==

Revision as of 14:38, 21 March 2012

A Vickers Range Clock's mechanism revealed.[1]

The Vickers Range Clock was a simple clockwork range clock, Admiralty Pattern Number 3778[1] built by Vickers to a conceptual design suggested by Percy Scott. It was built in large numbers starting in 1906.[2]

See Also

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Admiralty. Pamphlet on Minor Fire Control Instruments, 1946, Plate 4.
  2. Brooks, John. Dreadnought Gunnery and The Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control p. 25.

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