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 Peto & Radford regarding the content and simplification of accumulator instruction booklets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 139\3\ scan0160 | |
| Date | 18th May 1938 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex 1164 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. 18th May, 1938. S.H. Grylls, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. Dear Grylls, Further to my letter re Instruction Books, I saw our technical people at Dagenham yesterday about this and they are looking through the booklets that you sent with a view to finding out wherein the differences lie and we will take it up with Exide although all this may take a little time. It has always struck me that there was a lot of redundant information in these instructions rather of a laboratory nature about temperature conversion tables and things of this sort. Do you want such features to remain which might cover every possible set of circumstances in different parts of the world, or do you want it written more on the lines of what the average chauffeur or garage would be likely to understand and likely to do ? Yours sincerely, G.R.N. Minchin | ||