Stolen sector clock

[ricardian]

A PLEA FROM THE CHAIRMAN Jennifer de Donges OF HOOK MEMORIAL HALL, HOOK NR GOOLE, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
To the despicable person who took our valuable clock from the wall inside the hall on the night of the 1st February 2017.
This was a clock used in the R.A.F. Operations Room during the 2nd world war.
We are a charity and struggle to keep things afloat and we would be most grateful if you could share this with all you friends, especially Antique dealers as this clock is very rare.
PLEASE TELEPHONE with any information
Jenny 07790508983 / 01405765407

Here is a photo of a similar clock but ours has ELLIOT on the back plate and the face is marked Keith Anderson.

https://scontent-bru2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16299005_1420163368035902_7667904088003462138_n.jpg?oh=278eb b12cd6b0cace2171c60004db91b&oe=58FF6EE9

[NutLoose]

Will post on Flypast forums.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?141523-Stolen-sector-clock-BE-AWARE&p=2372305#post2372305

[ricardian]

The clock has been recovered! (http://www.humberside.police.uk/news/rare-raf-clock-recovered)

[Heathrow Harry]

hope they throw the book at him..............

[rugmuncher]

Hope he gets some time !

[Herod]

Hope he gets some time !

I want to second that, just give me a minute!

[Heathrow Harry]

actualy better to make him have to clean the hall every week for a couple of years.............

[MPN11]

... Or hung drawn and sectored?

[peterperfect]

section him too, then put him on the first wave at Dover.

[reds & greens]

Fantastic news.
Timely response.

[NickB]

Bet he gets a right ticking off...

[Sandy Parts]

timely result.... :)

[Heathrow Harry]

time to draw a line under this thread?

[happybiker]

Seconded!!

[Heathrow Harry]

Stop winding us up................

[MPN11]

OK, who nicked the key?

[Pontius Navigator]

Throw the key away

[peterperfect]

March the culprit off to Colchester and make sure he's not tick-tocking.

[Heathrow Harry]

got to hand it to you

[Slow Biker]

I wonder what happened to the sector clock that was in the explosives licensing office at HQSTC mid '80s.

[superplum]

I suspect it went to Wiltshire when someone retired c16 yrs ago.
:cool:

[FantomZorbin]

The first one that manages to work in "escapement" wins!

[Pontius Navigator]

The thief's escape meant certainly wound up the staff who had to beef up security in time.

[superplum]

Security will be more hands-on this time and be more cognisant!
:cool:

[peterperfect]

gotta face it, this thread's winding me up

[Heathrow Harry]

They'll have to keep a 24 hr watch on it from now

[Yellow Sun]

I'm getting quite confusee'd by all this!

YS

[NutLoose]

What springs to mind is why didn't he buy a replica and swap them, no one would probably have been any the wiser in the short time and by the time they were aware of it, they wouldn't have any idea as to when it was actually stolen.......

Just as well he didn't as they soon clocked on something was amiss and a couple of pointers had the alarm bells ringing..

[MPN11]

However, Justice holds a pendulum of sorts, which tends to regulate this sort of out-of-balance activity.

[onetrack]

When they catch the perpetrator, I trust he gets properly clocked.

[EESDL]

Was it down the back of the sofa?
This happens time and time again.......

[Tashengurt]

Was it found in a second hand shop.

[Innominate]

If Brexit means Brexit, does Greenwich Mean Time?

[MPN11]

The PM said "I AMconcerned by this foreign 24h nonsense."

[andytug]

This could be the start of a movement!

[MPN11]

Watch it!

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[ValMORNA]

You can't Fob me off with that one!

[Pontius Navigator]

This thread is ringing a false chime

[Flap Track 6]

There should be a mechanism for dealing with people like this ...

[Flap Track 6]

An insight into the inner workings of a criminal mind?

[9BIT]

I am amazed people have the time to continue to post nonsense on this thread

[Heathrow Harry]

I second that

[MPN11]

For some the hours hang heavy. And there's nothing more tedious than writing minutes.

[Pontius Navigator]

Most people are happy to take minutes but the taker of the clock shows he had time on his hands

[andytug]

It's just a little harmless escapement nonsense.....

[Pontius Navigator]

Tick tock, hickory dock, the thief ran off with the clock

[Roadster280]

The clock struck one, then it was gone...

[MPN11]

Would a military clock be allowed to strike?

[Pontius Navigator]

This thread is just a wind up.

[Heathrow Harry]

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

[Pontius Navigator]

Looks like time has run out

[MPN11]

Looks like time has run out
I'm still alive, so that is clearly a wind-up. Oh, hang on, you said that earlier.

Perhaps the thread has entered a time-warp?

[langleybaston]

Who can say
Why today,
tomorrow
Will be yesterday?

[8 day clock]

[Pontius Navigator]

MPN, no I didn't, but the clock is a 12 hour repeater so the same pun can be rewound every 12 hours.

[Union Jack]

MPN, no I didn't, but the clock is a 12 hour repeater so the same pun can be rewound every 12 hours. - PN

So presumably Twelve O'clock High is still showing twice daily.....:*

Jack

[MPN11]

Only if PN winds it up regularly. He should manage that, as someone who only usually worked once a week ;)

[Pontius Navigator]

I second that

[MPN11]

How do they manage an 8 day clock? What are the SOPs?

Someone winds it every Sunday [but if there's a raid on, someone might forget?]
Aged Retainer comes in once a week to wind it [what happens if he gets sick, or dies?]
Duty Airman issued with key, winding for the use of [what happens if he's sick, hungover or forgetful?]


On these thin threads hung the survival of Great Britain.

[Pontius Navigator]

In those days there were plenty of airmen so a clock watcher would be no problem.

Now if they had a clock watcher today it would not have been nicked

[MPN11]

In those days there were plenty of airmen so a clock watcher would be no problem.

Now if they had a clock watcher today it would not have been nicked
But ... how would the clock watcher know when to wind the clock?

Details, details ... they're the things that make things work.

... like the killer Beagle guarding the clock, accompanied by his RAFP Feeding-Person.

[NutLoose]

There appears to be no escapement from clocking on to this thread, there has been some jewels posted so far, 17 jewels to be precise. I will continue to watch what happens and see how long it takes until it sweeps to the bottom of the page, I am surprised a thread clockwise has lasted so long.

[Adam Nams]

I was looking for batteries for this clock. There were none, so I wound up at a clock shop.

[peterperfect]

Come on folks, enough's enough. This thread is starting to really tick me off.

[Pontius Navigator]

Would a military clock be allowed to strike?

[goudie]

Some posts on here are just minute attempts to fob us off

[NutLoose]

You're all cuckoos, the lot of you..

[Union Jack]

Propose it's time to start a movement to clock off - Hands up if someone would kindly second that.

Jack

[goudie]

This thread could last 'til the end of time

[NutLoose]

The only clock to worry about

The Death Clock - When Am I Going To Die? (http://deathclock.com/)

[MPN11]

Would a military clock be allowed to strike?
See #48. Is it a repeater movement?

[MPN11]

Thanks, NutLoose. It appears I died 2 years ago. Should I be worried? Am I living on borrowed time?

[NutLoose]

My sincere condolences, how was ones wake?

[MPN11]

I must have slept through it, or failed to set the alarm clock.

[Herod]

B*gger that. The Death Clock says 9/11 2020. I want 12/23 2046 at least. That's a ton, and I'm anticipating a congratulatory email from King William and the pension trustees meeting and grumbling "is that old b*stard STILL drawing his pension?"

[westernhero]

Time Gentlemen please !

[MPN11]

Certainly, Sir ... at the 3rd stroke it will be 14:40 ... beep, beep, beeeeep

[Pontius Navigator]

I understand the thief was called Procrastinator

[Expatrick]

I hope the quartz deal firmly with you lot!

[NutLoose]

You're winding me up, surely

[MPN11]

I was sure you were battery-powered, with a cheap Taiwanese movement ;)

[ValMORNA]

Give it a rest, for God's sake-o!

[MPN11]

I'm sure the RN used to call a pi$$-up a Roll-Ex

[NutLoose]

Does this mean it's ticka tocka timex tralll la laaa?

[Pontius Navigator]

I see the Cap Com finished just in time, time for tea

[Cazalet33]

http://s11.postimg.org/osqjdbnab/Check_Six.jpg

[MPN11]

That's a bit early for calling "Time" :(

[NutLoose]

well if you're buying....... :)

I'll stop the clock, though technically speaking, you did die several years ago, mind you, my local is full of musty old men, so you will fit right in... :E

[MPN11]

You mean I'm really dead? My clock has stopped? I must tell the OH when she gets back from Waitrose. I did feel a bit faint/feint this morning, but I thought that was just my new medication.

[Pontius Navigator]

Maybe the clock has death watch beetle. The holes are small black holes. Maybe reality disappears down the black hole.

In time all will be revealed.

[NutLoose]

See MPN11, just like Back to the Future your text is fading out.... soon you will have ceased to have existed...:E

[langleybaston]

a load of old rolex.