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Letter from F.H. Royce to The Tudor Accumulator Co. Ltd. regarding a 12-volt battery for Rolls-Royce car lighting.


Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\C\February1919\  Scan1
Date  13th February 1919
  
X. 3362.
X. 949

R7/G13219.
13th February, 1919.

The Tudor Accumulator Co.Ltd.,
3, Central Buildings,
Matthew Park Street,
Westminster.
LONDON, S.W.1.

Dear Sirs,

Sorry a touch of influenza and much serious work has caused me to neglect replying to your letter.

The 12 volt battery quoted will do quite well.
Please send with it a single tier supporting stand, and insulators, and if at some future time I increase the voltage to 24 or 32, by adding more cells, I will get another stand.
If there is a standard voltage used in train lighting, kindly let me know what it is.

[Handwritten annotations on diagram]
<-- best minimum length. -->
about 12"
on insulators
Wood tressel varnished to protect it from sulphuric acid

Pleased to hear you are making some progress with the bettery for the Rolls-Royce car lighting. It is an urgent matter to let them have the trial cells. I believe the prospects of business if worth your attention, because it is a manufacturing repetition job amounting to a fairly large sum per annum.

Yours faithfully,

From F.H.Royce.
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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