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).
Battery failures and the testing of alternative Lucas batteries on experimental cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 35\1\ scan 161 | |
| Date | 6th September 1920 | |
| X2676 Extract from EFC1/T6.9.20 X.664. BATTERIES. ------ your ------ We have/note R8/G4.9.20. The matter of these failures is very much before the Chloride Company as we paid them a visit on Thursday last which we are reporting separately. We are now arranging with Mr. Hives to put on the experimental cars other batteries, namely, the following:- No. 201 YLucas type 1260 celluloid. Weight 79 3/4 lbs. This is the battery referred to previously as one with the special celluloid slinging apparatus, for which we did not care. X2676 Regarding Lucas batteries, these are made by Lucas' themselves. We have seen their shops in which the plates are pasted and the cells are built. | ||