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).
The rough treatment and subsequent damage of duty batteries by shop fitters.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\4\ img233 | |
| Date | 5th March 1936 | |
| x6122. RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.2/MA.5.3.36. TREATMENT OF DUTY BATTERIES BY SHOP FITTERS. You will remember me raising with you some time ago the question of the rough treatment meted out to batteries resulting in cracked containers, etc. We have now had another battery scapped due to the container receiving rough treatment whilst in the hands of Gray in the Cylinder bay. Please inform all concerned very strongly that if the batteries are required for foptballs we will take steps to have them inflated!! Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||