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).
Visit from Exide (Chloride) and the potential order of a B.X.E. type battery for experimentation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 35\1\ scan 117 | |
| Date | 5th February 1919 | |
| R.R 225.a (SD T) (S.E. 527, 21-2-19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 21-9 EFC1/T5.2.19. Contd. -5- Exide(Chloride) We had a visit from the representative of this Company, and we have received from them since this visit, a specification of their type B.X.E. lighting and starting battery in an ebonite box of 60 ampere capacity on a 10 hour rate. We shall probably decide to order one of these for experiments I have your note R5/G1219 re batteries to hand, and I will sometime make out a specification of what we think a lighting and starting battery should be. EFC. | ||