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Issued from H.M. Chronometer Depot, Bristol. (stamped over Bristol)Bradford-on-Avon 20 JUL 1943
One of a set of seven Admiralty (Hydrographic Office) chronometer issue cards giving place of issue and date. These thin paper cards were designed to slide into a brass frame inside the chronometer or deck watch box, and were to record the date at which the instrument was last issued from the Department responsible for servicing them. :
1939: Royal Observatory, Greenwich
1943: ?H.M. Chronometer Depot?, Bradford on Avon (moved from Bristol about 1940)
1963: (by now shown as 'Form 213') ?Chronometer Department?, Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex
1965: ?Chronometer Branch?, Hydrographer of the Navy, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex
1975: ?Chronometer Section? Hydrographic Department, Ministry of Defence, Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, Sussex
The Chronometer Section officially closed in 1985.
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