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 a battery manufacturer discussing design alterations and missing parts for accumulators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168b\3\ img241 | |
| Date | 26th October 1929 | |
| X75350. Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex Telephone VICTORIA 2667. 6 LINES, PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE. Telegrams CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. 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 C. GOLD F.C. GRAHAM MENZIES G.R.N. MINCHIN WILLIAM PETO C.R.D. PRITCHETT T.W. PRITCHETT YOUR REF. _______ OUR REF. M/3 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 26th October 1929. Messrs. Rolls Royce Limited, DERBY. RECEIVED OCT 28 1929 Dear Sirs, We have yours of the 15th instant, ref: EPC.1/AD, re suggestions for alteration in design. We understand that Mr. Pritchett dealt with these matters with Mr. Fowler Clark at Olympia, and we confirm what was arranged. The missing ebonite collars were on the first batch of the new type of battery that we put through, and in one department it was not quite realised that they had to be there. There are not, however, more than about 10 batteries issued without them. We hear that you have received the ones which we have sent to you and to fit them, you should warm them up on a hot plate and push them over the post, when they will shrink and make a good fit. A little hot vaseline can then be poured round the pillars. With regard to your suggestion of having an anti-monial lead washer instead of the present brass one, we will adopt this, though we hesitated in doing it before because we doubted if you would approve of a lead thread. With regard to your remarks about clearance, this applies to the intermediate terminals, but on the end ones - unless you use rather a thin sweating socket - we are afraid that the locking nut on top will only have the thread half through it. | ||