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 accumulator manufacturer Peto & Radford concerning modifications to an instruction book.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 139\3\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 20th May 1938 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON, S.W.1. YOUR REF OUR REF M/5. 20th May, 1938. S.H. Grylls, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. 1164 Dear Grylls, All right, we will modify the Instruction Book as you suggest. I do not think we need very much, if anything, about mixing the acid because people are extraordinarily unlikely to want to do that and we might always assume that acid is available although, of course, it might conceivably be the wrong gravity and want to be adjusted. Also, I think we might leave out a good deal about the charging from an external source with the illustration of the mains wires because nowadays most of the currents that one meets in houses or garages are alternating and what appears in the instruction book would not be of much help. If you think we are going too far in eliminating most of this, please let me know but if you do not reply, I shall take it as tacit agreement. Yours sincerely, G.R. Minchin | ||