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 an accumulator manufacturer regarding the development of a custom smaller, lighter-weight battery.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\2\ img076 | |
| Date | 18th July 1941 | |
| Works. Dagenham Dock. Essex DEPOTS. LONDON - MANCHESTER - GLASGOW TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS DAGENITE. 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. 18th July, 1941. W.A. Robotham, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Robotham, With regard to the lighter weight batteries that you want, I do not want you to think I have forgotten about this for actually I have done quite a lot on it myself at the Works. You said you wanted to go down the scale to such a point to one where it was definitely too small. We are making up one for you which is smaller than anything you have had and going one beyond that which we think must be too small but you can have it and then decide that is beyond the limit. They will reach you within the next two or three weeks and I hope this will be what you want. Yours sincerely, G.R.N.Minchin Handwritten notes: Top left corner: 6021 Right side, next to address: File | ||