THE following pages show
how Batteries are made at the Factory. The illustrations
will be especially interesting to Battery Service Station
Owners who have conceived the idea that they would like
to manufacture their own batteries.
A completed battery is a simple looking piece of
apparatus, yet the equipment needed to make it is
elaborate and expensive, as the following illustrations
will show. Quantity production is necessary in order to
build a good battery at a moderate cost to the car owner,
and quantity production means a large factory, elaborate
and expensive equipment, and a large working force.
Furthermore, before any batteries are put on the market,
extensive research and experimentation is necessary to
develop a battery which will prove a success in the
field. This in itself requires considerable time and
money. No manufacturer who has developed formulas and
designs at a considerable expense will disclose them to
others who desire to enter the manufacturing field as
competitors, nor can anyone expect them to do so.
If the man who contemplates entering the battery
manufacturing business can afford to develop his own
formulas and designs, build a factory, and organize a
working force, it is, of course, perfectly. proper for
him to become a manufacturer; but unless he can do so, he
should not attempt to make a battery.
The following illustrations, will of course, be of
interest to the man who repairs batteries. A knowledge of
the manufacturing processes will give him a better
understanding of the batteries which he repairs. The less
mystery there is about the battery, the more efficiently
can the repairman do his work.
