Fifty-Two-Year-Old Clock May Tick for First Time

From The American Horologist magazine, January 1939

Fifty-Two-Year-Old Clock May Tick for First Time

Silent for fifty-two years, the clock in the New York Central Tower may give its first tick soon. The city's oldest timeless timepiece. The four-faced clock without works or hands in the tower of the N ew York Central's 138th St. Station finally may become a self-respecting ticker that will really tick. So that this clock, by next month, will have let fifty two years tick by without having recorded a second of them; and may have to go to work if the station gets a dressing-up as a terminal for the World's Fair.