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).
Requesting the cost of five different experimental sample batteries for a report being prepared for Mr. Royce.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 48\3\ Scan035 | |
| Date | 7th March 1921 | |
| X.4206 To Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} from EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} c. Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} /Ms. EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 1/T7.3.21. X.4288. X.979. X.3629. X.4206. X.1198. X.664 - BATTERIES - GENERAL. We should be glad if you could let us have particulars of the cost of new sample batteries recently received, in quantities such as we should require for use on the car. 1. The Chloride 6 BXE5 battery with all the latest improvements, three experimental samples of which we have recently received from the Chloride Co. 2. The Tudor battery, two experimental samples of which we have recently received from the Tudor Co. 3. The De Martis accumulator, one experimental sample of which we have recently received from the Engineering Agency, Ltd., 68 Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.1. 4. The 6-LXR-9-1 U.S.A. Exide battery, one experimental sample of which we have recently received from America. 5. The Willard S.J.R.27 one experimental sample of which we received some time ago from U.S.A. We have in all our future reports on experimental apparatus to include costs of such apparatus. Could you kindly let us have these sometime to-day as we are preparing a report on batteries for Mr. Royce ? EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} | ||