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 manufacturers Peto & Radford regarding the test report of a failed Delco battery and a proposed replacement.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\3\ img156 | |
| Date | 5th April 1938 | |
| TELEPHONE | RAINHAM 34. TELEGRAMS | (ESSEX) LONDON OFFICE, 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, S.W.1 Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. WORKS DAGENHAM DOCK ESSEX. YOUR REF Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC {R. Childs} 12/JH. OUR REF ESC/MH. {M. Huckerby} 5th April 1938. Rolls Royce Limited, D E R B Y. For the attention of Mr. Child. Dear Sirs, We are enclosing herewith our test report on the Delco 15T-9 battery which you recently lent to us. Unfortunately we were unable to carry out a complete series of tests because, as you will read in the report, on opening up the battery we found that the positive plates were badly broken up, the separators were brittle and fractured, and the negatives were in an extremely poor condition. In view of this we should like to know if the 3-GXK15 battery we sent to you has been tried out as regards starting the Oldsmobile engine in the cold chamber. If this battery is satisfactory from this point of view will you please accept it in place of the Delco battery which is now obviously beyond repair. The special batteries mentioned in paragraph 1 of our letter dated 1.3.38. are now being tested here in order to obtain output curves, and as soon as our tests are complete we will send the batteries off to you. At the same time the writer proposes to visit you to witness the cold starting tests, and also to discuss more fully the test report mentioned above. Yours faithfully, PETO & RADFORD. [Signature] | ||