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No 236
November 1967
The Belfry Bulletin – Volume Twenty One – Number Eleven From the Hon. Secretary. Dear Member, I have spoken to several people recently who say that they have not been asked to contribute to the Belfry Building Fund. There is no time like the present. Please – if the B.E.C. means anything to you – and you can afford it, will you make a gift of money for the fund? A number of members have already signed Bankers Orders to give the club – specifically for building a new Belfry - £1 per month for three years. CAN YOU? If a total of fifty members did this, we would have little to worry about. Each of these people would, over three years, give the club £36, but each week they would have only parted with the price of twenty fags OR two pints of beer. Perhaps you can’t afford to do this. Well, any other gifts, however large or small, will be gladly received. Three people so far have offered to lend the club £100. Are there any other offers? Will anyone who intends to contribute anything towards the new Belfry please get in touch with Bobby Bagshaw before Christmas so that the committee can take vital decisions at the January meeting. Yours Sincerely, Alan Thomas. P.S. It would help the club’s cash position if we reduced the stock of club ties (17/6 each plus postage) and car badges (15/- each plus postage). Postage is 1/6 in each case. How about treating yourself to a new tie or badge for Christmas? _______________________________________________________________________________________ Letter to the Editor. Dear Editor I have very little experience of cave surveying, but the query in the October B.B. seemed to provide an interesting armchair exercise. However, after being misled by the diagram and wasting much drinking time, I got back to first principles. If my interpretation of the figure in the B.B. is correct, and we are concerned with one side of a triangle whose other two sides are 7.42’ and 0.75’, then the unknown must be between 6.67’ and 8.17’. This range is only 1.5’ and I would have thought this smaller than the usual errors to be expected in cave surveying. If, as appears from the diagram, the unknown is greater than 7.42’ then a figure of 7.795’ could be used as the maximum error is only 4.5” “Non-perfectionist” Any comments from cave surveyors? (Ed) _______________________________________________________________________________________ notice Would all energetic B.E.C. members who live within the London area, and are willing to partake in the helping of a JUMBLE SALE in aid of B.E.C. funds contact CEDRIC GREEN, 6 SPRING STREET, PADDINGTON, W.2. TELEPHONE PAD 6941.