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As the story had been presented to the Select Committee and was carried in the press, the police were interested in the watches that Bedford had kept. They came to Goode's shop and had him remove a dial case from the bottom drawer of his safe to see if it was one of Bedford's watches. He said that it was and that he did not know who Bedford's watchmaker was. He said he had never seen it before and it was not an exact match for any of the watches that Bedford had brought to him.
The evidence to the Select Committee was also presented by George Goode of Birmingham. Goode was a second cousin of Alfred Bedford. He stated that he had witnessed the arrest of Bedford at the end of the war in 1918. Goode then went on to give evidence about Bedford's watches. He said that Bedford had given him twelve watches as a gift for Christmas, the last of which was marked 7th August 1917, and which he had found at the time of the arrest. This was the watch that was used as a fake watch for the Customs men when Bedford was arrested. He said that Bedford had said the watches had been ordered in Switzerland from a business friend of his who had gone to America to buy them.
Goode also told the Select Committee that Bedford had told him that he had taken the watches to his brothers' jeweller's shop in Birmingham. As their jeweller was a relative, Bedford had asked if he would sell the watches to his brother for him. He had said that it was quite easy to sell them as they were American watches. He then mentioned that the jeweller had tried to sell them in America but that they had not been sold. He was not sure what had happened to them, but assumed that they were left in America. Neither this jeweller nor his brother ever came forward to give evidence to the court.
Dennison had learnt the valuable lessons of the American company, and had learnt that if he was going to compete with watch movements and cases made by machinery, he would have to make the watches himself. So he convinced his partner to allow him to start a new company, and they formed the Anglo-American Watch Company in 1858.
The next year, the company became the Anglo-American Watch Company, because they had a new partner, Aaron Dennison. He had been very keen to go into business and had been working with a watch making company in France that had been formed in 1849. They were making fusee movements for watches (the fusee being the old English mechanical movement).
Once the settlers arrived in America the demand for watch movement parts increased, and so the company moved to Birmingham in 1851. Soon after, the company changed its name to the American Watch Company.
In 1852, the company issued their first product of the 1850s: the Emerson. This was a very popular watch, but demand was growing, so in 1855 the Company opened a branch in London. Watchmakers could now order parts by mail, and a watch could be made to order for £1.75.
For the next few years, the company put out a few more fusee movements, a few more watches, but nothing that gained much attention. It wasn't until 1867 that the company was fully operational, although the original founders had been involved in the company since 1858. 827ec27edc