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The Electric Storage Battery Company, which would one day become Exide Technologies, was founded in the USA in 1888 by W.W. Gibbs, an executive at a gas company, who had seen the potential of electricity as a source of lighting. He purchased the patents of Clement Payen, a French inventor who advanced electrical storage, and began transforming those ideas into reliable commercial products.[1]
See also Wikipedia entry.
1914 Chloride made the Exide and Ironclad Exide batteries for road vehicles
1920 October. Chloride exhibited Ironclad Exide batteries for road vehicles at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia[2]
1938 Exide Company. D. P. Dunne is Chairman, E. C. McKinnon is Chief Engineer
1939 Exide Batteries Ltd was incorporated
Post-WWII Exide low tension accumulators and Drydex high tension batteries sold for use in radios (see adverts).
1971 Exide Batteries Ltd was renamed Chloride Automotive Batteries.
1989 Chloride sold the Exide Europe automotive battery business[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ [1] Exide Technologies website
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd October 1920 p400
- ↑ The Times, May 24, 1989