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).
Battery connection issues on the 40/50 and 20HP chassis, proposing to adopt the 40/50 scheme on the 20HP.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\2\ Scan024 | |
| Date | 14th February 1924 | |
| X.46/7. Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} c. EFC. BY2-P14.2.24. 40/50 CHASSIS - BATTERIES. In reply to Wd{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}2/NJ11224 and Wd{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}2/NJ13224, we have not, to my knowledge, experienced trouble from loose connections on the 40/50 chassis. So far as my information goes the whole of the battery trouble we have experienced which can be traced to loose connections has occurred on the 20HP chassis with the split taper socket scheme nipped up by a bolt. Apparently in this case the socket has never been pushed home and held down, whilst the bolt drawing together the two halves of the boss is tightened up. Un view of these facts I do not propose to make any change in the direction of burning by the various cell connections, as our experience does not confirm the fact that the screwed up connections are unsatisfactory, whereas they certainly have the advantage of enabling individual cells to be changed in one battery with simple ease. My knowledge of the facts, so far as Battery are concerned, are such as to rather incline me to adopt the 40/50 scheme on the 20HP rather than modify the 40/50. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||