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 accumulator manufacturers Peto & Radford discussing the performance of their battery during a test run.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\4\ scan0109 | |
| Date | 4th May 1937 | |
| Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex TELEPHONE SLOANE 7164. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE TELEGRAMS DAGENITE, 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. 4th May, 1937. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., DERBY. For the attention of Mr. Hamilton. Dear Sirs, I have your letter of the 3rd instant, RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HFH.{Hoppy F. Hamilton}19/AP, and may I say how thoroughly I envy Mr. Hamilton having been on that very interesting trip. On my next visit to the Experimental department I shall expect to see several lions skins on the floor and walls etc! What you say about the battery is exceedingly interesting and considering the work it did and the comparative lack of attention, even we as makers, must be allowed to say that it really did do extraordinarily well. To add water only three times at intervals of 4,000 miles in a temperature of 118° in the shade and then the water not being below the top of the plates, is something to give the private owner in England a thrill but I suppose we must hand out a considerable proportion of the praise to your dynamo and its control for not having overcharged the battery for it is that which principally evaporates the water. We were not proposing at the moment to use this in advertisements but the Press will be interested in this matter and we should like to give them brief particulars with illustrations and presume there is no objection to mentioning that it was on Mr. H.E. Symons' Rolls-Royce Phantom III car used in the Nairobi run? Yours faithfully, GRN Minchin notice file | ||