On Dec 16, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
  Solartron instruments are, not suprisingly,
fairly common in England. I
 have an LM1420.2 (the .2 meaning it's got the BCD output socket on the
 back), which is all discrete transistors with nixie tubes for the
 display. And a somewhat better model (LM1602???) which uses DTL chips.
 The former certainly contains a Seston Standard Cell, I suspect the
 latter does too (ass, incidentally, does that Blackburn valved DVM I
 mentioned in another message). 
  A DVM with a built-in standard cell??  Neat!  Got pics and/or schematics?
 I'd love to see that. 
and at the bottom a link to the Weston cell (or element as in "galvanic
element").
Christian