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
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Cable Corporation
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
General Cable Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-303 (NAID 513750).
Text on the object
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
