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 aircraft batteries sent for testing and a custom battery in a new Bentley.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\4\ img203 | |
Date | 14th May 1935 | |
Works. Dagenham Dock, Essex 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, 1935. H.S. West, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. West, Some six or eight weeks ago we sent you a couple of aircraft batteries of the Air Ministry type and the Civil type for you to play about with and test and try against your starters and engines to see if they would give the performance you wanted. Have you yet got anything to say about these? I have just got my new Bentley car but have only had it a day or two and only driven it a few miles. It seems to be very nice and I expect to bring it to Derby before very long. I have got a battery on it made up with three of the cells having the standard Bentley elements and the other three having a larger number of thinner plates and it will be interesting to see which cells give out first, although I fancy one would have to keep the car a very long time to kill the battery. Hoping you are well, Yours sincerely, G.R.N. Minchin | ||