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).
Letter from a battery supplier concerning battery failures and an order for experimental Bentley batteries.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 58\4\ Scan091 | |
| Date | 7th February 1933 | |
| 86107. NATIONAL ACCUMULATOR COMPANY LIMITED. TELEPHONE: SLOANE 6368. TELEGRAMS: NATIONACCU, SOWEST, LONDON. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES: 50, GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON, S. W. I. 7th February, 1933. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, Your letter of the 29th December, HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/WST7/KT, has been noted and we will if we can inform you of failures of batteries as we hear of them. We note also what you say about the ballast resistance but we do not, of course, interfere with it in any way but we know that some dealers do so as a means of getting over the difficulty. Re Bentley batteries. When the writer was in Derby with Mr. Preston on the last occasion, it was thought to be a good thing if you had six experimental batteries instead of the three that you have at present and that instead of one with thick plates and two with thin, that you ordered the corresponding three more so as to bring you up to three of each type and we understood that an order was coming to us for these additional three. Has anything more been done about this? Yours faithfully, NATIONAL ACCUMULATOR COMPANY LIMITED. G.R.N. Minchin one case on at the moment now. | ||