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 manufacturers Peto & Radford regarding cold starting tests for batteries.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\3\ img154 | |
| Date | 29th April 1938 | |
| TELEPHONE: RAINHAM 34. TELEGRAMS: (ESSEX) LONDON OFFICE: 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS. S.W.1 Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. WORKS DAGENHAM DOCK ESSEX. YOUR REF Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC {R. Childs} 3/JH OUR REF ESC/MH. {M. Huckerby} CHILDS 29th April 1938. Messrs. Rolls Royce Limited, D E R B Y. Dear Sirs, Referring to the recent correspondence which we have had in connection with cold starting tests, we are sending off to you two fully charged 6-HZD11-G batteries as described in our letter of the 1st March 1938. The writer would like to come to Derby on Friday next, May 6th, to witness the cold starting tests with these batteries, and will you please let us know at your early convenience if this date will be suitable. The writer will also arrange to bring with him high rate discharge curves for the various types which we have supplied to you, and at the same time a further explanation of our report dated the 5th instant on the Delco 15-T9 battery will be dealt with. Yours faithfully, PETO & RADFORD. V. {VIENNA} S. Chapman | ||