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 condition of batteries upon opening, noting their concurrent failure points and ongoing comparative tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\2\ Scan083 | |
| Date | 24th March 1926 | |
| Contd. -2- EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} /T24.3.26. In some ways the condition of the batteries on opening up was rather satisfactory, mainly in the fact that they were largely on the point of failing concurrently in the various ways in which they might be expected to fail, i.e. there was no obviously weak point which caused either battery to fail prematurely considerably in advance of failure through other causes. As previously reported we have also a number of batteries in which cells of various makes are sandwiched, but for the present and for some considerable time yet no comparative failure results from these intensive tests are expected. E.F.C. (handwritten) EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} JC.15 attached. | ||