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Hard to tell from the picture, but on all those clocks there was a soldered safety piece that would fail and melt away if points fused and caused a short. This was usually because someone bypassed the fuse or put too large of a fuse in place. You can resolder that wire and then check the clock again with a fused power wire. If the fuse blows right away, then the winding in the winder is shorted.

I made a video on the 55 and 56 clocks, you can skim through that and compare yours.

Also if you post some more pictures I could tell you directly.

https://youtu.be/h2mSAk_95Rk

I can tell you that it probably won't keep good time even if you get it going. Mine loses about 10 minutes per day, but it's still nice to see it go.

My 54 clock I belive had an adjustment to account for running to fast or slow.

They all do, but even on the fastest adjustment it will probably be too slow.

The clock on my 55 even has the adjustment on the front goofed up from someone overenthusiastically adjusting it in the past.

Thanks for the video HPH, I edited the photo in post 230, to show better the area in question

Bigkev, that may be the answer to my question
Thank you both! I will solder them together and then test

Thanks!

As you can see in my video, there should be a plastic cover over the solenoid. Some more pictures would be helpful to see if the mechanism is not damaged.

I soldered the wire back onto the clip and the clock works, thanks so much fellas

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