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This chart also gives you a good indication of movement production for each year.  The two dates I have outlined in red show the years of LEAST production.  Of course, 1938 was because of the Great Depression.  1943/1944 was due to the brass shortage during WW2.

So, why would any of these production numbers be important?  If you are a collector looking for rarity, then you need to pay close attention to these numbers!  The production numbers don't constitute just Revere Production.  The total production was SPLIT between Revere, GE and Herschede.  That really reduces the number of clocks made for each line.  So therefore, a clock produced at the onset of the depression in 1932 has a much higher chance of being rare compared to a clock made in 1947.  

To break this down even more?  I have no idea of how many different MODELS were made for each company.  5? 10? 20???  So, let's say that in 1935, Revere allocated half of their 13,800 production to the General Electric line.  That means, 6,900 GE clocks were made.  At this point, I'll let you fill in the blank!  How many different models did GE produce in 1935?  Well, we don't know.  Let's just take a wild guess and say 10.  Just to average it out, 6900 Clocks / 10 models would mean an average of 690 of each model.

Let's put that 690 clocks into perspective.  During the same year 1935, Telechron clock production was also suffering.  However, they were selling 3,000 to 8,000 of every model they were offering.  Those numbers make these early Telechron or GE clocks quite rare, as Telechron was used to selling hundreds of thousands!  But compared to Westminster sales, those were monster numbers!