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).
Inquiry to Chloride Electrical Storage Co. Ltd. regarding a new type of battery with glass separators mentioned in an I.A.E. Research Abstract.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\4\ img252 | |
| Date | 2nd October 1936 | |
| Y6122. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.4/MA. 2nd October, 1936. E C.McKinnon, Esq., Messrs.Chloride Electrical Storage Co.Ltd., Exide Works, Clifton Junction, Nr.Manchester. Dear Mr.McKinnon, I have just read an I.A.E. Research Abstract in which mention is made of a new type of battery developed in the U.S.A. on the Kathanode principal. This consists apparently of some form of glass separators. I should be interested to know if you have heard anything of this development and what your Research Engineers think of it. The number of the abstract is 8044 class 217 issued in August last. Yours sincerely, | ||