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 manufacturer Peto & Radford providing a schedule of battery plate sizes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 58\4\ Scan262 | |
| Date | 24th April 1936 | |
| 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 HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.4/JH. OUR REF ESC/MH.{M. Huckerby} Handwritten: 86021. 24th April 1936. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd, DERBY. Dear Sirs, As requested in your letter of the 23rd inst., we have pleasure in enclosing herewith a schedule of plate sizes as used on the various types of cars which you mention. We have also included the sizes of plates in our HZD and GL{G. Linnett} ranges of batteries. We trust that this gives you all the information you require. Yours faithfully, PETO & RADFORD. E.S. Chapman | ||