We (Bill Stoddard, Richard Tjarks and Jeff Wood) thank the following contributors for supplying Westclox information:

The Regional History Center at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. Their collection number 116 contains 31 boxes (21.5 linear feet) of Westclox, Inc. records donated by Mr. James Woolson, Vice President of General Time Corporation on November 3, 1980. We thank Joan M. Metzger, Assistant University Archivist and her very helpful staff for their assistance during our visits.

Individuals: Greg Adams, Brent Anderson, Vince Angell, Howard Banta, Steve Berger, Gary Biolchini, Dana Blackwell, Emmett Buchanan, John Darrow, Pat Dowd, Bernard Edwards, Steve Fitzsimmons, Elmer Finken, Derrick Gable, Jim Galazka, Phil Haltigan, Bill Hector, Leslie Hoin, Steven Horovitz, Frank Kearly Jr., Joe Kardonne, Max Lismann, Gary Massey, Robert McNichol, Bob Moore, Dr. Ross Mullner, Frank Nyilas, Gary Peacock, Dennis Sagvold, Robert Schug, Dean Skinner, Kim St. Dennis, Jim Thompson, Lee Werling Jr., James Whitaker, Nelson Winslow, G. Lee Wilson.

Many thanks to Richard Weinssen, who very generously donated clocks and catalogs as well as helped financially. He has also helped by typing in the 1911 and 1912 Westclox advertising reports.

Advertisements: Mary Siegfried.

Web site suggestions: Michael Helms and David Pickens. Thanks to Dave Pickens for suggesting the Ruby language, which led me to Ruby on rails, which led me to the CakePHP Framework. I am now using CakePhp to develop the administration interface for my new database backed clock history web site. CakePHP's MVC approach has allowed me to clean up the code considerably, and has made it straightforward to use Ajax.

Donations of Westclox clocks: Annabel Alderman, John Dreyfuss, Ruth Holkeboer, Jay Kennan.

Thanks to Richard Heckle, who donated material his father Hugh Heckle received while working at Westclox. Hugh worked at Westclox in Athens, Georgia from 1953 to 1969, leaving as manager of manufacturing. He started at Telechron in Ashland Massachusetts in 1933. The material donated is: drawings and adjustment of the E-10 escapement; 82 page horology course taught at Westclox in the 1950's and 1960's; and "Horological Gearing" course notes dated 1948.

Photos: Carl Berkland.

I thank Allan Symons, Manager and Curator of The Canadian Clock Museum , for sending scans of Westclox catalogs.

We offer special thanks to Ellworth Danz, Ed Cielasyzk and Max Schlenker, formerly of Westclox.

I am grateful to Ellworth Danz for donating 17 Westclox catalogs and some price lists. This will help greatly in identifying which years some of the clocks and watches were made.

Thanks to Anne Bowen, who donated the Westclox training manuals from her dad, James Morton. Anne provided this information about her father. "My dad, James Morton, worked as a draftsman for Westclox from 1954 or 1955 until 1960. I believe he worked in the fuse division.My dad went to night school classes Westclox offered, and I believe these manuals were the text books used in those classes. He worked for Westclox until 1960, when he took a job at Sunbeam Corp. in Chicago, in the Timing Division. He rose through the ranks, and in the mid 1980's was Vice President of the Timing Division. I'm not sure how familiar you are with Sunbeam clocks (they were all electric or battery operated, not key-wound). One of Sunbeam's products was a small plastic grandfather's style clock with a swinging pendulum. I believe he is listed as one of the inventors on the patent for the pendulum."

The manuals Anne donated are:

1) "Horological Gearing", Westclox Training School, Fourth Edition, 1955 (An original mimeographed copy and a photocopy).

2) "Magnetism and Electricity", dated 1/20/56.

3) Horological Mechanisms, Jewels, Springs and Lubrication", pages dated 1954 and 1955 (An original mimeographed copy and a photocopy).

I thank Gary Peacock, a former Westclox salesman, for donating seven catalogs and price lists from the 1990's. He also generously sent some watches and related items he had saved over the years.

Organizations: the American Clock and Watch Museum, the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and the Northern Illinois Regional History Center (holder of the Westclox, Incorporated Records from the LaSalle-Peru factory).

Replies to Bill and Richard's requests for assistance and articles in the NAWCC Bulletin: William Diefenbach, Caspar Doerhoff, Les Hesketh, A. J. Kreshack, Michael Mazur, Stewart Thompson, O. H. Schwandermann, Earl Whitehouse, A. Joe Martino, Rene Desjardins, L. C. Wedding, Ray Bourne, William Flowers, Charles Badeau, Al Steinke, Frank Meevis, Bob Pomeroy, Paula Gammell, William Liscum.

We thank the following contributors for supplying Telechron information: Bruce Hannon (gave me the 1930 auxiliary movement), Jay Kennan (information about type F and H rotors) and Andy Niehaus (nameplate with two NP numbers).

Thanks to Ross Merante for letting me know on October 15, 2002 that Westclox were available online from Salton.

Thanks to the following individuals for donations of material:

Kyle Owen: unusual Westclox automobile clock dated 1936.

Chad Elmore: photocopy of the 1940 Westclox employee handbook.

Caroline Shaw: booklet "Your New Westclox Alarm" ca. 1917 - 1920.

Mark Sansone: Baby Ben style 6 and Moonbeam.

Ray Brown for data on model 503 Gothic Mantel Telechron clock and an early Seth Thomas 8 day spring driven clock.

Jean-Christian Petre for data on an early Seth Thomas 8 day weight clock

Robert Bailey reported a new Seth Thomas og dial type on 11-23-06.

Financial contributions: Richard Weinssen, Herbert Buss.

Steven Lutz: information about early Big Bens in his collection.

Jean-Christian Petre for photos and information about an early Seth Thomas brass movement weight driven clock.

Automobile Clock Identification: Jack Watson.

Christopher Santos for information about the Westclox plant in Scotland.

We are very thankful for all the help we have received, and want to acknowledge all contributors. If we have left anyone off,