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).
The replacement of brass washers with lead ones on standard 6-BXE.5 batteries.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\5\ Scan296 | |
| Date | 17th June 1921 | |
| R.R. 199 (250T) (SD676 19-7-17) MP18086 X.4288 BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Mtn6/H. 17. 6. 21. MS. C. EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} X4288 RE STANDARD 6-BXE.5. BATTERIES. With reference to EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 's letter to the Chloride Company, reference EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 8/T. of the 15th inst, copy of which you have, the Chloride Company have replied as per attached copy of letter, in which it will be seen that they wish us to inform them the number of batteries we have in our Stores that are fitted with brass washers referred to. Will you kindly obtain this information and forward it on to the Chloride Company, in order that they may send a man down to change over the brass washers for lead ones. BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Mtn. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} JUN 17 1921 RECEIVED | ||