His son, Frederick, took over the running of the company in 1875 and, during his working life, installed large new oak bell frames Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford, and in Merton and Magdalen Colleges, among others. Frederick also designed and installed turret clocks, one of which 1 be seen at Besselsleigh School. His sucessor was his son Richard, who took over in 1909, and he in turn took his son Francis into the business in 1946. Frank's nephew Brian joined him 1958, when the company changed name to Whites of Appleton.

The move to Appleton had been made in 1887, to what was then the Three Horseshoes Inn, but is now a private house. In1985, a custom-built fatory was constructed, complete with a new forge, overhead electric crane, and engineering, forging and woodworking machinery .The works were further extended in 1993 and, two years later, the company also installed its own bells.

This is the Balscote Ring, 18 bells that have an interesting history of their own.They originally belonged to a farmer in the village of Balscote, near Banbury, who took the bells with him Somerset when he retired there to live with his daughter. Whites eventually traced these bells and brought them back to Oxfordshire, where bellringers can make an appointment to look round tower and to ring this unique peal.

Having been in use in a private house,they are not very heavy, weighing pounds rather than hundredweights.

Members of the White family still form more than half the staff. Working with Brian are his uncle Frank, who alhough 83 and theoretically retired, still looks into the works every day, and his wife Diana, a former music teacher who deals with the administrative side of the business. Working with Brian in dealing with the bells themselves are two assistants he has trained, Graham Clifton and Neil Rowland.