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 an accumulator manufacturer regarding the supply and testing of different battery plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 58\4\ Scan282 | |
| Date | 14th May 1936 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex 86021 TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS 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. 14th May, 1936. H.E. West, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. West, I have yours of the 13th instant, and will write you in the course of a day or so about a visit to Derby by either Mr. Chapman or myself. I note that you have decided not to go into production with the very thin plate battery until further tests are made and that as we happen to offer these, we are in a temporary state of eclipse! This is very easily overcome by our offering the same plates as Exide have offered you and as we have supplied in the past thus giving an identical job which should not result in any eclipse. Our reason for putting forward the thinner plate was that taking all the various factors into consideration we thought it was likely to be the more satisfactory battery of the two but if you want more experience of it, shall we forget about offering these to you for production work now and offer you the thicker plate as Exide? Yours sincerely, GRMinchin | ||