170ah batteries - Bedford MWR

[simon king]

The complete station list for Bedford MWRs listed on WFTW Vol 2 (page WS19-38/39) suggests that MWRs used operationally by armoured formations were supplied with 2 or 4 170ah batteries rather than the expected 100/120ah batteries.

 

Can't seem to find any photos of these batteries. Can anybody suggest where I might be able to find some references for them. I'm not even sure if they had wooden or metal cases.

 

Thanks

[Chris Suslowicz]

The complete station list for Bedford MWRs listed on WFTW Vol 2 (page WS19-38/39) suggests that MWRs used operationally by armoured formations were supplied with 2 or 4 170ah batteries rather than the expected 100/120ah batteries.

 

Can't seem to find any photos of these batteries. Can anybody suggest where I might be able to find some references for them. I'm not even sure if they had wooden or metal cases.

 

Thanks

 

Wireless for the Warrior Volume 2 has them listed in Appendix 9, with a small drawing of a wooden cased battery.

 

Someone recently posted a photograph to the WS19 group asking for identification of a battery box, and that was a pressed-steel 6V 170AH dated 1945, so they are presumably late/post WW2 manufacture. (The ones I have are dated in the 1950s, I think.)

 

Be warned: they weigh 99 pounds unfilled so are easily a hundredweight apiece when in service.:wow:

 

Chris.

[MatchFuzee]

This thread may help. Just make the wooden boxes to the design in in the thread but to the size of the batteries that you are going to use.

 

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=21421