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 changeover from brass terminal washers to antimonial lead washers for BXE-5 batteries.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\5\ Scan303 | |
| Date | 27th June 1921 | |
| R.R. 235a (100 F) (S.H. 798. 10-12-20) G. {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 3948 X.4288 BY c. to EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} /AWG/W27621. 27th June.1921. X.4288 BXE-5 BATTERIES REF: BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /MTN6/H17.6.21. FITTED WITH BRASS TERMINAL WASHERS. The number of Batteries in the Stores, Test Department and fitted to chassis at these Works is 143. we shall therefore require 858 Antimonial Lead Washers to effect a changeover. In all, 310 sets of this type of Battery have been delivered, therefore, will you say what you propose to do with the Batteries which have already left these Works. The Chloride people will carry out the changeover at these Works immediately but we should advise them at once whether a complete changeover is being effected. Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} | ||