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 Peto & Radford Ltd. to Mr. West regarding Kathanode type batteries with glass wool separation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\3\ img325 | |
| Date | 8th October 1936 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex 6142. TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. (5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE) TELEGRAMS DAGENITE, CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of Accumulators for over 50 years. PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS, LONDON. S.W.1. YOUR REF_________ OUR REF M/5. 8th October, 1936. H.E. West, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. West, I have yours of the 2nd instant, and the Kathanode type of battery in America that you refer to and although rather boosted there at the moment, is a plain straight forward motor car battery but with glass wool separation. In America, the Gould Co. have the Kathanode licence and they recently started the idea of making motor car batteries with such separation. They formed a subsidiary company with a name something like the Kathanode Battery Licencing Corporation so that they could grant Licences to other Battery Makers and I believe that more than one are now marketing such a battery. It is sold as rather the De Luxe type and some have glass wool separation only and some have this with sheets of wood in addition. We have made up such batteries from time to time at Dagenham for the Air Ministry and other people and if you want to play about with one, there is not the slightest difficulty in making you one and sending it to you. This I hope is the information you require. Yours sincerely, G.R.N. Minchin | ||