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 regarding a visit to discuss battery tests and plate performance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 38\5\ Scan193 | |
| Date | 10th January 1922 | |
| X.3398 H8 1922 Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex and Ashtead, Surrey TELEPHONE VICTORIA 3667. 4 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE. TELEGRAMS CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. RECEIVED Manufacturers of P&R Accumulators. Established 1889 PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON. S.W.1. DIRECTORS: SIR ARCHIBALD D.GOLD F.C.GRAHAM MENZIES C.R.D.PRITCHETT G.R.N.MINCHIN T.W.PRITCHETT WILLIAM PETO DAVID WILLOCK. YOUR REF. OUR REF /C.101. 10th January.1922. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Nightingale Road, DERBY. Dear Sirs, For the attention of Mr. Fowler Clark. The writer is going to be in your neighbourhood in about today's time with Mr. Preston, the head of our Testing Laboratory. You may remember that we promised we would bring Mr. Preston to see your Technical Staff to talk over the very interesting tests you have been making on our batteries. We trust it will be convenient for the writer and him to call on you. We hope the tests on the batteries recently submitted have been satisfactory, but we would remind you that ours are hard, long life plates (as distinct from the soft, high capacity positives which disintegrate and shed their material) and that they take seven or eight discharges before they give their full performance. Yours faithfully, PETO & RADFORD. G.R.N.Minchin P.S. With regard to the sample mouldings you were submitting to Mr. Royce, we can perhaps bring these back with us, which would save you the trouble of packing them up. | ||