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The failure of a P & R cell in an S4 battery (157) during a bench life test.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 54\1\  Scan307
Date  3rd October 1928
  
COPY.

EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}
JC.129.

3.10.28.

RE FAILURE OF P & R CELL IN S4 BATTERY (157)

One P & R cell has failed in this battery after being on our bench life test for 22 months and run 31,000 miles on the road. Its age is 3 years 4 months. Failure was due to accumulated sediment which had reached up to the plates causing a short.

The negative plates and separators were in excellent mechanical condition. The positive plates were <strike>fair</strike> poor, having lost a good amount of paste, the grid being very weak.

The remaining cells are being used for replacements.

EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} /G.Johnson.
  
  
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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