Southern Railway 8 inch dial oak cased fusee clock ex Eastleigh.

8 inch Oak cased iron dial fusee railway clock with a spun brass bezel supplied to the Southern Railway in 1944 by Grimshaw, Baxter & Elliott Ltd. The quality English fusee movement in fully overhauled condition has rectangular plates, which are held together by cylindrical pillars. A totally original Oak case with a four piece turned surround held onto the back box by four tapered pegs. The back box is of typical 20^th century design with one side door and a bottom door secured by a brass turn. An enamel painted iron dial with Roman numerals and bearing the legend, S.R. 10640. The Southern Railway clock records show that this clock was located at,  Eastleigh Stores Progress office and before this in the Locomotive works it was deleted from Railway stock on the 6th December 1966. A rare survivor with its original S.R. dial writing. Eastleigh was the former London and South Western Railway’s locomotive works in Hampshire. Stock No 33