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title: 'Accurate instruments...a guarantee! Test reports: they''ve just got to be right!'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/accurate-instruments-a-guarantee-general-cable-1944/
description: 'Company inspection-series poster: a technician at a test instrument is framed in a hole torn through a cable test sheet.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Accurate instruments...a guarantee! Test reports: they've just got to be right!, 1944 US poster: Company inspection-series](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/accurate-instruments-a-guarantee-general-cable-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/accurate-instruments-a-guarantee-general-cable-1944.jpg)

# Accurate instruments...a guarantee! Test reports: they've just got to be right!

Company inspection-series poster: a technician at a test instrument is framed in a hole torn through a cable test sheet, which carries a notary seal and signatures. The official-looking document lends its authority to the slogan that test reports 'got to be right'; the technique is faint and the sheet is an in-house quality message.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ACCURATE INSTRUMENTS
...a Guarantee!
TEST REPORTS
They've just GOT to be RIGHT!
[test sheet, partly legible:] FORM M-454 / GENERAL CABLE ... INSPECTION ... TEST SHEET / Rated Voltage 35KV / Tested in accordance with AEIC & IPCEA Specifications. / Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19 day of month, year, 1944 / NOTARY PUBLIC / TESTED BY: John Doe / CUST. INSP.: Richard Roe
[imprint:] INSPECTION SERIES, NO. 2 - COPYRIGHT 1944, GENERAL CABLE CORPORATION
```

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