19 Set Control Unit Batteries

[Chris Suslowicz]

All the cells shown so far have been modern ones, with NATO stock numbers, etc., and not the WW2 style.

I'll try and dig some of my older ones out and see if the camera is working.

(Worst case is I could stick them on the flatbed scanner!)

Chris.
p.s. that small blue "Crompton Parkinson" battery with the white label is a DS-7 and I think was a Post Office type used in multimeters for the low resistance range. It's rather smaller than an 'X' cell.

[Grant Bowker]

Compared to the plain look of the postwar batteries is this Australian WWII version. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/diamon...?language_id=3


It looks like the same type X cells were used for Aldis signal lamps - which doesn't make them a lot easier to find as I suspect they were mainly tossed when they went flat or when the equipment that needed them went out of service.

[Grant Bowker]

Another image of X cell batteries was found at https://www.sentimentaljourney.co.uk...cell-batteries
The site says they have 3 for sale (fourth one, dated 1944, being kept by owner for his collection).

[David Dunlop]

Grant.

I have a set of photos of a wartime Canadian Willard Battery Company cell tucked away somewhere on a drive stick. Dull Olive Green overall with all black markings.

When I next run across them, I will post a set here.


David