Category Archives: Clocks

Electric clock bibliography

Karaosman, M. N. (1942). Modern electric clocks. Students’ Quarterly Journal, 12(48), 92-96.

Langman, H. R., & Ball, A. (1935). Electrical horology (3rd ed.). The Technical Press.
Mallett, D. (2019). Smiths Sectric Clock. Octane (187), 160.

Miles, R. H. A. (2011). Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping. Antiquarian Horological Society.

Montgomerie, G. A. (1942). Discussion on “Modern electric clocks”. Students’ Quarterly Journal, 13(49), 17.

Nye, J. (2014). A long time in making : the history of Smiths. Oxford Univ. Press.
Philpott, S. F. (1933). Modern Electric Clocks: Principles, Construction, Installation, and Maintenance. Pitman.

Philpott, S. F. (1934). Synchronous clocks – troubles and remedies. Horological Journal, 77(911), 88-90.

Philpott, S. F. (1934). Synchronous clocks – troubles and remedies. Horological Journal, 77(914), 55-56.

Philpott, S. F. (1935). Modern Electric Clocks: Principles, Construction, Installation, and Maintenance (2nd ed.). Pitman.

Philpott, S. F. (1949). Modern Electric Clocks: Principles, Construction, Installation, and Maintenance (4th ed.). Pitman.

Pook, L. P. (2015). British Domestic Synchronous Clocks 1930-1980 : The Rise and Fall of a Technology. Springer International Publishing.

Robinson, T. R. (1940). Servicing the synchronous clock. Horological Journal, 82(984), 13-36.

Robinson, T. R. (1942). Modern clocks : their repair and maintenance (2nd ed.). N.A.G. Press.

Robinson, T. R. (1955). Modern clocks : their repair and maintenance (3rd ed.). N.A.G. Press.

Smith, B. (2008). Smith’s Domestic Clocks: A Guide to Their History and Identification. Pierhead Publications.

Smiths English Clocks Ltd. Repair manual for “sectric” timepieces. S. Smith & Sons.

Smiths English Clocks Ltd. Servicing and oiling Smiths ‘Sectric’ clocks. S. Smith & Sons.

Wise, S. J. (1951). Electric clocks : principles, construction, operation, installation and repair of mains and battery-operated clocks for domestic and industrial purposes (2nd ed.). Heywood & Co.

Impossible to find:

Pam & Peter Wotton (nd). Birth of the British Synchronous Motor Clock, (self-published?)