Show thousands of clocks must tick in unison the british post office can claim to have the biggest collection of clocks in the ilie kingdom more than time pieces have to be kept perfectly synchronized sin chroni zed although thousands of these are behind scenes and ana are used only for timing junction and trunk telephone calls every bayat clay at 1000 a ro and 1 00 p m greenwich time estele telegraphed to chief post offices in england scotland wales and north ireland in point of size the second collection in the kingdom Is probably that distributed among the he royal palaces there are 1000 pieces of which windsor castle and buckingham palace havekost have most at sn P all clocks haye have been kept half an hour fast ever since the time of king edward in the houses of parliament there tire are about clocks necessitating a great deal of winding and vigilant synchronization |