Claimed to bp the only one of its kind in the world, a device has been made at the Great Western Railway Company’s works at Reading for the testing of watches before distribution to the staff. Each watch is subjected to a fifteen minutes’ trial, during which it receives 1,200 shocks, representing the jolts it would - receive in service. The device, a small wooden tray, is fixed at one end while the other is jerkeu up and down by an electric motorj
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 10
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