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Does anyone have a photo they could post of an original wartime 6v battery as fitted to British soft skins, carriers etc... I would like to have an idea what they looked like so I can tell how good the modern copies are.

 

 

Often hard rubber type casing with open bars linking cells. Best ones would be Lincon, as near as you will get. Some military batteries were in a wooden case, but that would be easy to replicate around a suitable battery.

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Does anyone have a photo they could post of an original wartime 6v battery as fitted to British soft skins, carriers etc... I would like to have an idea what they looked like so I can tell how good the modern copies are.

 

Um, I thought we'd got more battery photographs, but there's this one:

 

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/photos/battery-box.htm

 

The wooden battery boxes are the same dimensions as the postwar pressed steel cases, since they had to be interchangeable without modifying the racks and clamps.

 

Another possibly useful source is the REME battery shop EMER:

 

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/refEMERs/PwrJ330.pdf

 

And the wartime version (which you'll need to request in the usual way):

 

Doc: 5222

Maintenance, Testing & Repair of Lead Acid Batteries, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th Line REME Workshops, August 1944

 

Hope this is some help.

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Um, I thought we'd got more battery photographs, but there's this one:

 

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/photos/battery-box.htm

 

The wooden battery boxes are the same dimensions as the postwar pressed steel cases, since they had to be interchangeable without modifying the racks and clamps.

 

 

I found the other link:

 

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/battery/

 

This has actual dimensions, as well as the photographs.

 

Note: these are all Signals batteries (i.e: for radio^Wwireless kit), not automotive types.

 

Never ever use a cell discharge tester on a radio battery - it will seriously damage it.

 

There's also our copy of the Defence Standards battery specifications (trawled off their website after I joked that "we ought to mirror this to reduce our load on their server"), and which promptly got all the interesting stuff (WS18 and WS38, etc.) specifications removed in a cleanup.

 

http://www.royalsignals.org.uk/links.htm#battery

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