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#1
...This number: 182895433321... should lead to the above. I've contacted the vendor, trying to persuade him to give a bit more detail (I think picture 1 has the/a maker's name visible but not readable just below the console lamp; the front pipes look like pretty good spotted metal; where exactly it is might help anyone interested) but, I suppose he's got other things to do. Couldn't find it in NPOR, so at a loss but stops appear to be:
Swell:  Horn 8', Gemshorn 4', Lieblich Gedacht 8', and Viole de Gamba 8'
Great: Flauto Traverso 8', Dulciana 8', Rohrflote 8', Open Diapason (those spotted metal pipes) 8'
Pedal: Bourdon 16'
Couplers: Sw. to Gt., Sw. to Ped., and Gt. to Ped..
If I were still in my North Devon Cure, I'd probably be off there with a Luton-top, and one or two chaps, to dismantle it and bring it down!
FJRO
p.s. ...all that 8-foot work, and just the one 4-foot, would bring on a seizure today - no squeaky stuff at all!
#2
I've had a look, and a play, of this instrument in the next-door County, hoping it might do for us, but fear it's physically too big at 7' 8"w x 12' 6" d x 12' 2" h, to be accommodated without drastic re-disposing. I think it's been sadly neglected for years, but could/should be a splendid machine.
Does anyone here know more about Robt. Allen of Bristol? A 'jstor' reference, has him claiming in an ad. to have worked with 'Willis of London' - perhaps mere sales-talk, but Cornopean, Oboe (Sw.) and Corno di Bassetto, Trumpet (Gt.) sounds quite Willisy, and there's a spare Pedal slide I'm guessing might have been 'Trombone/Ophicleide (prepared for)'.
It would seem a shame for this decent instrument to have to go abroad.
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#3
Just seen this: apparently a Church (could be a Dissenting Conventicle, of course) has literally, it seems, let a scrap merchant deal with the Organ it can't afford to repair. The pictures include some of what are plainly bellows-weights, with a plain 'W': Willis?
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the usual Item No. to link it for you - the Seller is reubin xxxx (?), and the item had a good nine days to go when I looked about 20 minutes ago, i.e. c. 21:00 on the Eve of All Hallows.