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).
Instructions detailing the reasons for a component failure involving cells, plates and separators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\2\ Scan171 | |
| Date | 8th December 1924 | |
| RR 239. (150 BKS.) (DB {Donald Bastow - Suspensions} 461-8-12-24) MP 306975 ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. INSTRUCTIONS. III 19 To Order No. J.C.14. Customer's No. were very bad, the ebonite having chafed away leaving only just a framework. The wood had been punctured very badly due to the negative plates swelling & the paste pinching through the wood. Both the cells failed in two ways. 1 By sediment reaching the plates 2 By faulty separation Even if the separators had been good they would still have failed by sediment piling up & vice-versa. Signed G.J. This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work. | ||