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.
