Timlec
Updated 25 April 2013.
Timlec synchronous clocks were manufactured by Timlec Ltd, in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, UK from 1946-1948. Electricity cuts in 1948 bankrupted the company.
The movements were designed in house, cases were designed by a commercial artist. The first model had a Bakelite case, the second model was a hexagonal alarm clock and the third, more upmarket, model had a wooden case.
Source: comment by Zee Jay 25 April 2013.
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Timlec synchronous mantel clock S 116 Timlec C
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August 4, 2011 at 8:59 pm |
I’ve got a bakelite one of these, with a hardboard rear cover. Mechanism and hands look the same though…
August 26, 2011 at 8:16 pm |
I also have one of the Bakelite types.
I would like to discover the approx. year of manufacture.
August 27, 2011 at 11:45 am |
Hello Brunel, I’d have to guess that it would be around 1950. Bakelite was big in the 50’s and sixties but since they made one out of wood, which would almost certainly have pre-dated the bakelite one, but there appears to have been no other updating, (as far as I can see) I’d infer that it would have been made around the early part of the bakelite era. Hope that helps.
August 27, 2011 at 3:51 pm |
tHANKS FOR THE INFO.
April 25, 2013 at 2:58 pm |
Manufactured by Timlec Ltd (contraction of Time Electric!) 1946-1948 in Wiveliscombe, Somerset, UK.
1st:model Bakelite
2nd:Hexagonal alarm …metal
3rd model upscale wood.
Interior works designed in house. Cases designed by commercial artist.
First on the postwar market. Production sold out 4 years out.
Electricity cuts in 1948 bankrupted company.
April 25, 2013 at 4:15 pm |
Thanks for the information, which is new to me.
May 1, 2013 at 12:32 pm |
Mr.Pook…the information is accurate. My Father owned the company and started it with my oldest brother…both engineers!