new town house clock

The small clock, which has occupied a corner of Aberdeen Town House in Broad Street for many years, has been recommended for removal owing to its unsatisfactory condition. The recommendation was made by the Finance Committee of Aberdeen Council, Treasurer Lunan presiding. The committee resolved to recommend that the clock be replaced by a new electrically controlled one with a barometer, at a cost not exceeding £100.

Source: Aberdeen Press and Journal Thursday April 27th, 1933

NEW ELECTRIC CLOCK AT ABERDEEN. Automatically Controlled from Post Office. 

Considerable interest was aroused yesterday by the fixing of a new electric clock, with barometer, on the Broad Street side of the Municipal Buildings, Aberdeen in place of the old one, which had become somewhat erratic. When the proposal to install a new clock was approved by the Finance Committee of the Town Council the estimated cost was stated to be £100. The clock is electrically controlled by time signal from the Post Office through the medium of a master clock in the town serjeants' room in the Town House. To begin with, it is regulated to a certain degree of accuracy, and thereafter any deviation from the correct time is put right daily. When the time signal is given there is no movement brought to bear on the hands of the clock, but there is an automatic adjustment of a weight on the pendulum. The crowds whose curiosity was aroused by the sight of two dials, conspicuous by their whiteness, viewed the new clock in favourable circumstances, the indicator on the barometer pointed to "Fair."

Source: Aberdeen Press and Journal Saturday September 9th, 1933