Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-09-22 | Page 13 | Threaded-Rubber Keeps Battery Long on Job

THREADED-RUBBER KEEPS BUTTERY . LONG ON JOB Discussing the new battery equipped equip-ped with Threaded-Rubber Insulation, which was only recently announced by the Wlllard Storage Battery Company, Com-pany, after having been in use on 35,-000 35,-000 cars for over two years, relates a Wlllard representative, a story of the performance of one of these batteries in South America: "We recently got word from the home office that a Wlllard batten with a threaded rubber Insulation was sold in Georgetown, British Guiana where the extreme heat usually limits the life of wood separator batteries to a year or less. This battery went into service the first of October, 1915. About August 1st, of this year, the dealer who sold the car wrote In to the Wlllard factory to say that after 22 months of hard service the threaded thread-ed rubber insulation battery was still on the job. "During all this' time it has been given only a few minutes attention a week that is, filled with distilled wa ter and specific gravity taken with the hydrometer. Climatic conditions made frequent filling with water necessary. "Merely as a matter of precaution, the owner had the battery taken off, washed out with clean water and refilled, re-filled, and the battery went back into service, good apparently for another long period of active service."