*Location:

   City Hall Tower
   President Street,
     between Lambert & Spilsbury Streets
   Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa
   LL: S 26.21595, E 28.16372 z20

Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page

*Contact:

   Germiston City Hall
   271-275 President Street
   Germiston 1400
   T: 079 775 7179
   - or -
   Ekurhuleni Germison Municipality
   E: city.manager@ekurhuleni.gov.za

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   City offices moved; tower remains.

   G, ??, 14-2-11, 1935, G&J

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic carillon of 23 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1935
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston 
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1935

Google StreetView 2015

1938? b/w photo

Stock color photo of the clock tower

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all non-traditional carillons in this region by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all non-traditional carillons in this region by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all non-traditional carillons in this region by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in South Africa (ZA).

   This page was built from the database on 29-Dec-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/07/09