Leyland Motors.

This old clock is in the grounds of the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal where I parked today. Perhaps there used to be a garage here as well as a brewery  I thought.
Internet research reveals that this old clock is one of 7 or so  Leyland Motors clocks that used to be in prominent positions on major UK roads in the 1930s. This one was on the A6 at Shap and the farmer's wife who lived nearby was paid £2 a year to wind it up. The outer shell of the clock was removed, brought to Kendal and preserved in the 1970s. But the clock's innards were only found after an appeal by local enthusiasts in 2007.  A retired GP from Carlisle discovered the missing workings of the clock in items left to him by a former patient 20 years previously which enabled the clock to be restored to working order.


Apparently there was one in the middle of a roundabout in Leyland itself. I wonder if it's still there.